Two teenagers have been sentenced after luring 26-year-old Adam Khan to meet a girl, 16, in Luton before he was killed in a machete attack - one was jailed for life15:47, 20 Jul 2026Updated 15:49, 20 Jul 2026Police release CCTV after 17-year-old convicted for machete attack murderA teenager has been jailed for life after murdering an accountant in a machete street ambush.‌Emmanuel Avogo, then 16, can now be named for the first time after hatching a plan with a 16-year-old girl to “lure” Adam Khan, 26, to a meeting in Humberstone Road, Luton, on August 31 last year.‌When Mr Khan turned up to the meeting, Avogo chased him and then pulled a machete from down his trousers which he used to stab Mr Khan to death.‌Harrow Crown Court heard Avogo regularly carried a knife and had a string of incidents in his past involving violence and knives. On Monday, he was sentenced by Mr Justice Bennathan to life with a minimum term of 20 years, after being convicted at trial of murder.The girl – who cannot be identified – was sentenced to a two-year detention and training order after she was found guilty at trial of manslaughter.‌The judge said Mr Khan had been “pestering” the girl for sex and agreed to provide her with some cannabis, she planned with Avogo to set him up to be attacked, but she did not know he would be armed with the machete.“By August 31 he had offered to got you some cannabis for some form of sexual favour, and most people would agree this was very wrong”, he said.“It would have serve him right if you two had taken the drugs and run off, but he had done nothing to deserve the terrible violence done to him that day.”‌The killers were dubbed “pure evil” and told to “rot in hell” by Mr Khan’s sister on Monday, as the court heard how the victim had been destined for a successful career as an accountant when he was killed.Before passing sentence, the judge stripped Avogo of his anonymity as a youth defendant.‌Noting his knife crime past, the judge said Avogo is “still in denial” about the murder, “suggesting any hope of reform and rehabilitation is a very distant prospect”.“He frequently carried a knife or machete around the time of the offence,” he added.“The seriousness of the offence of which he was convicted and the widespread publicity and concern surrounding young people and knife crime militate in favour of allowing this case to be examined by the press and discussed by the public.”‌Prosecutor Kate Bex KC said Mr Khan fell victim to an “ambush”, after he had exchanged phone messages with the girl in the lead up to the fateful meeting.“Both defendants had developed a plan to lure Mr Khan to the scene, and following a confrontation he was then attacked by Mr Avogo”, she said.‌“He was attacked using a machete Mr Avogo had stored at his home address, and had been concealed down his trousers.”In CCTV of the incident, Mr Khan is seen approaching a car and talking to the girl through the window, before Avogo appears.Mr Khan retreated and drove away for a short distance with the boy chasing after him, but then stopped his vehicle, took a tyre wrench from the boot, and went to confront Avogo.‌He was stabbed five times – in the face, stomach and arm – in the fight that followed, and died later that evening in hospital.Mr Khan’s mother, who was not named in court, said her son had started working at 15 after the death of his father to support his family, and she called him “bright, strong, resilient and caring”.She said of the teenage killers: “I hope they meet a fate far worse than what they inflicted on my son.”Mr Khan’s sister said in her victim impact statement that her brother was murdered a day before he was due to take his final accountancy qualification exam, having got himself a job within a top financial firm.‌“He had so much to look forward to, but that was brutally snatched from him,” she said.She said the teenage killers have “pure evil inside of them”, and said: “My brother’s death will hover over our heads and leave a hole in our hearts for the rest of our lives.”She added: “I pray the harshest of justice is served to the inhumane people who committed this crime. “May they rot in hell.”‌At trial, it emerged that Avogo was a habitual carrier of knives and four months before murdering Mr Khan he had been spared jail after stabbing a man with a machete during a robbery of an e-bike.In 2023, when he was 14, he received a police caution after attempting to push another boy into the road and punching him in the face, the court heard.Later the same year, he received a second police caution after attacking two fellow school pupils, punching one repeatedly in the face and punching a second to the ground when he tried to intervene.‌Avogo assaulted a police officer in January 2024, and he was caught with a lock knife in August that year, when aged 15.The e-bike robbery happened in March 2025, when he posed as a buyer in response to a Facebook marketplace advert and tried to ride off with the bike during the arranged meeting in Aylesbury.When the seller stopped him fleeing, Avogo pulled out a 67cm-long machete from his trousers and left the victim with hand and leg injuries.‌He pleaded guilty at Milton Keynes Youth Court to attempted robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, and unlawful wounding, and was sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with a night-time curfew.Avogo had been hit over the head with a hammer in October 2023, leaving him in need of brain surgery, and he said during the trial that PTSD contributed to his response to the confrontation with Mr Khan.Mr Justice Bennathan noted that the boy continues to plead his innocence over Mr Khan’s death, insisting he had not intended to cause him serious harm.Article continues belowAfter the stabbing, the girl searched online for “Luton stabbing” and researched how to delete an Instagram account.Both defendants waved to their families as they were led away from the dock.