Terrifying moment killers armed with two huge knives chase and stab helpless teen to death outside shop
THIS is the terrifying moment two fist-bumping killers armed with Rambo-style knives stab a defenceless teenager to death.
Williams Haines, 18, and an unnamed 17-year-old knifed Yusuf Mohamed, 18, in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, on June 26 last year.
The two killers bumped fists moments after stabbing Yusuf to death in an unprovoked attack.
Chilling CCTV released by the police showed the two thugs target Yusuf as he walks past a food shop on Uxbridge Road.
It comes after shocking new figures today showed knife crime in England and Wales has rocketed to record levels.
Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose seven per cent in England and Wales in the year to September.
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In the horrifying footage, Haines lunges at Yusuf after crossing the road brandishing a large knife, stabbing him in the heart.
Yusuf tries to escape by retreating back through the shop door, but falls on the floor.
The second killer, wearing a white t-shirt, is seen unsheathing a huge blade and storming inside the shop after Yusuf.
In the sickening footage, Yusuf is seen crawling backwards along the floor in terror.
The video then shows his cowardly attacker fleeing from the shop after stabbing him in the thigh.
Following a trial at the Old Bailey, Haines was found guilty of murder and possessing a blade.
His co-accused was cleared of murder but had earlier admitted the lesser offences of manslaughter and having a knife.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said: “Suddenly, and for no obvious reason, the two defendants crossed the road towards Yusuf and his friends.
“Yusuf Mohamed had no time to run away, he had no time to do anything to protect himself.
“Unlike his attackers, he was not carrying a weapon. He stood no chance.”
Haines, who reached him first, acted with “brutal efficiency”, lunging at the victim and stabbing him in the heart.
Jones told jurors: “Seeing Yusuf collapse to the floor, and as Yusuf desperately tried to retreat, crawling backwards on his elbows, [the 17-year-old] took out his own knife and followed him, stabbing him in the leg as he lay defenceless.
“As the two young men ran away, tucking their knives back out of sight, they gave each other a fist bump as if to say, ‘Well done us’.”
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Yusuf died later the same night.
Haines, of Acton, west London, had accepted that he was the person in the footage but claimed he could not remember the incident because he had been drinking at the time.
Following the verdicts, the defendants were remanded into custody to be sentenced on February 24.
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