{"id":55276,"date":"2025-05-23T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/teens-plead-guilty-to-murder-of-boy-14-on-bus-in-woolwich\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:18:37","slug":"teens-plead-guilty-to-murder-of-boy-14-on-bus-in-woolwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/teens-plead-guilty-to-murder-of-boy-14-on-bus-in-woolwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens plead guilty to murder of boy, 14, on bus in Woolwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Two teenagers have pleaded guilty to the murder of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed on a bus in south-east London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kelyan Bokassa was attacked and killed in Woolwich on 7 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The two boys, both aged 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday, where they also admitted to carrying a bladed weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kelyan&#8217;s mother was heard crying in court as the pleas were entered. Sentencing will take place on Friday 25 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The schoolboy was the first teenager to be killed by knife crime in the capital in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A court previously heard that Kelyan had been sitting at the back seat of the bus when two people both armed with &#8220;lengthy machetes&#8221; attacked him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Despite the efforts of the bus driver, passengers and attending paramedics, Kelyan was pronounced dead shortly after being attacked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy75nzk4y1vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have pleaded guilty to the murder of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed on a bus in south-east London. Kelyan Bokassa was attacked and killed in Woolwich on 7 January. The two boys, both aged 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday, where they also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[2434,6433,3317,1648,15018,2600,17258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55278,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55276\/revisions\/55278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}