Overview

• The youth was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court to life with an eight-and-a-half-year minimum term.
• The defendant was convicted in April by a 10-2 majority for murdering 13-year-old Jahziah Coke during a dispute over missing cannabis.
• Jahziah suffered a fatal 15cm chest wound inflicted with a sharp knife that nearly severed a rib.
• Mrs Justice Tipples refused to lift reporting restrictions protecting the defendant’s identity to support his rehabilitation.
• Prosecutors dropped charges against another teenager and an adult co-defendant was acquitted of assisting an offender.