A teenage girl who acted as a "honeytrap" to lure a smitten 16-year-old to his death at the hands of a love rival is due to be sentenced. Skip related content
Samantha Joseph led lovestruck Shakilus Townsend into an ambush in a quiet cul-de-sac where he was beaten with baseball bats and stabbed six times.
The teenager bled to death after the "relentless and merciless attack" by a masked and hooded gang in Thornton Heath, south London, in July last year.
Joseph, who was just 15 at the time, laughed as they caught up with him, walking away as they began their brutal assault. Her older boyfriend Danny McLean plunged a knife into Shakilus's chest, raking it across his liver before twisting the blade.
As he lay bleeding to death Shakilus, from Deptford, called out for his mother and cried: "I don't want to die."
Joseph, now 17, from Brockley, south London, and McLean, 18, from Thornton Heath, were found guilty of murder alongside five other youths.
Shakilus was besotted with the girl and told his mother he wanted to marry her but she told friends she was just using him and treated him like "s***".
CCTV footage from the day of the murder showed her wearing a see-through floral dress as she met Shakilus and took a bus with him. He thought they were on their way to meet her cousin but in fact she was leading him into the teeth of an ambush in a quiet cul-de-sac, secretly keeping in touch with McLean by mobile phone all the while.
After the murder Joseph was seen walking off with McLean, carrying his hoodie and a cream-coloured handbag stained with his blood from an injury sustained during the murderous melee. She later tried to "rub out" all traces of her relationship with Shakilus, deleting his online Bebo account and telling friends to erase his number from their phones.
Former public schoolboy and London Irish rugby player Andre Johnson-Haynes, 18, from Croydon, was one of the other youths found guilty of murder. Also facing life sentences are brothers Tyrell Ellis, 19, and Don-Carlos Ellis, 18, of Thornton Heath, together with Michael Akinfenwa, 18, and Andre Thompson, 17, both from Norwood.
Cunts
Samantha Joseph led lovestruck Shakilus Townsend into an ambush in a quiet cul-de-sac where he was beaten with baseball bats and stabbed six times.
The teenager bled to death after the "relentless and merciless attack" by a masked and hooded gang in Thornton Heath, south London, in July last year.
Joseph, who was just 15 at the time, laughed as they caught up with him, walking away as they began their brutal assault. Her older boyfriend Danny McLean plunged a knife into Shakilus's chest, raking it across his liver before twisting the blade.
As he lay bleeding to death Shakilus, from Deptford, called out for his mother and cried: "I don't want to die."
Joseph, now 17, from Brockley, south London, and McLean, 18, from Thornton Heath, were found guilty of murder alongside five other youths.
Shakilus was besotted with the girl and told his mother he wanted to marry her but she told friends she was just using him and treated him like "s***".
CCTV footage from the day of the murder showed her wearing a see-through floral dress as she met Shakilus and took a bus with him. He thought they were on their way to meet her cousin but in fact she was leading him into the teeth of an ambush in a quiet cul-de-sac, secretly keeping in touch with McLean by mobile phone all the while.
After the murder Joseph was seen walking off with McLean, carrying his hoodie and a cream-coloured handbag stained with his blood from an injury sustained during the murderous melee. She later tried to "rub out" all traces of her relationship with Shakilus, deleting his online Bebo account and telling friends to erase his number from their phones.
Former public schoolboy and London Irish rugby player Andre Johnson-Haynes, 18, from Croydon, was one of the other youths found guilty of murder. Also facing life sentences are brothers Tyrell Ellis, 19, and Don-Carlos Ellis, 18, of Thornton Heath, together with Michael Akinfenwa, 18, and Andre Thompson, 17, both from Norwood.
Cunts
