Two teenage boys who were stabbed to death in gang-related machete attacks just four months apart were good friends, it has been revealed.

Aspiring rap artist Kelyan Bokassa, 14, took flowers to Deajaun Campbell's grieving mother weeks before he was stabbed 27 times on a London bus.

Daejaun, 15, was ambushed in Woolwich, south-east London, on September 22 last year and cried out 'I'm only 15, don't let me die' as he was fatally stabbed twice.

He was friends with 14-year-old Kelyan, who was killed two miles away by two grinning 16-year-old boys with machetes on a bus in Woolwich months later, on January 7.

The pair were locked up for life with a minimum term of 15 years and 10 months at the Old Bailey last week.