Two teenagers are facing severe penalties for the brutal murder of 14-year-old Keylan Bokassa. He was attacked on a bus in Woolwich by two 16-year-olds armed with machetes, suffering 27 stab wounds. This incident highlights the escalating knife crime problem in London. Kelyan had just boarded the bus after school and was seated when attacked. Despite efforts from fellow passengers and the bus driver to save him, he died from a wound to his thigh. One of the attackers disposed of his machete in the River Thames and has a prior knife possession conviction.
The two boys attacked Keylan Bokassa on the top deck of the 472 bus, moments after boarding the double-decker when it stopped in Woolwich Church Street.
Kelyan was stabbed 27 times with machetes and died at the scene, in an attack which sent shockwaves across London and provided another terrible example of the capital's knife crime problem.
The defendants must have known the deceased was on that bus. They approached him and almost instantaneously attacked.
Kelyan, an aspiring rapper, had been on his way home from school when he was attacked.
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