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2025-01-16 14:32
A teenager has been found guilty of the murder of a 15-year-old girl after a row over a teddy bear.
Hassan Sentamu, who is now 18, admitted manslaughter after stabbing Elianne Andam in the neck outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, in September 2023.
He denied murder, claiming his autism spectrum disorder had caused him to lose control during the meeting.
But on Thursday a jury found Sentamu, of New Addington, near Croydon, guilty of Elianne’s murder by a majority verdict.
The prosecution had told the court that Sentamu had flown into a rage and had no lawful excuse for having a kitchen knife, having picked it up at home after an earlier incident of perceived disrespect.
The Old Bailey heard Elianne had gone with her friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to meet Sentamu. The friend and Sentamu had been in a relationship, which had ended.
At the meeting they were supposed to swap personal possessions, the court heard, but when the friend handed a bag to her former boyfriend, who was wearing gloves and a mask and concealing the knife, he failed to hand over her items, including a teddy bear she wanted back.
The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, will sentence Sentamu at a later date.
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