Elijah Gokool-Mely, an 18-year-old from White City, has been found guilty of the murder and robbery of Victor Lee, a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed three times and pushed into a canal. The victim, Lee, was found in the Grand Union Canal in north-west London in June last year. The jury at the five-week trial at the Old Bailey found two co-defendants, aged 15 and 16, not guilty of murder, manslaughter and robbery.
According to the prosecution barrister Crispin Aylett KC, Lee was buying weapons online and selling them for a profit. He had changed the date of birth on his passport to make it look like he was old enough to legally buy weapons. He had sent a photograph to the defendants of three knives and five knife boxes. Gokool-Mely returned back to the crime scene on a bike.
A knife box recovered from the murder scene was found to bear the fingerprints of Gokool-Mely and a knife found nearby had his DNA profile on the handle and Lee’s blood on the blade. Gokool-Mely claimed he acted
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