Machete-wielding youths who smiled as they fatally stabbed schoolboy jailed for life

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Two machete-wielding youths who smiled as they fatally stabbed a 14-year-old schoolboy on a bus have been jailed for life.

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa called, “I want my mum” after he was mortally wounded in front of horrified passengers aboard the a route 472 bus in Woolwich, south-east London, on January 7.

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