Boy, 16, posed as own girlfriend to lure love rival before stabbing him in the heart
A teenager who pretended to be his girlfriend to lure his love rival down an alley before stabbing him in the heart with a machete has been jailed for life.
Kevin Biji, 17, posed as his girlfriend on Snapchat to lure the other teenager, 16, down a dark alleyway to carry out the horrific assault in April.
The victim was stabbed twice in the chest, but amazingly managed to cycle home to ask for help from his family.
He then texted a friend to warn her he ‘might die’, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Both boys attended the same sixth-form college, and had been dating the same girl.
The victim was at home when he received a Snapchat message from the girl’s account inviting him over for sex.
David Birrell, prosecuting, said the teenager was a ‘little suspicious’ and asked ‘whether she was with the defendant’, and was told she was not.
They met down a side street off Hailsham Road in Aigburth, Liverpool Echo reports.
But Biji, then 16, emerged wearing a balaclava and brandishing a foot long machete.
He lunged at his victim and told ‘that’s my ting’ as the other boy tried to fight back using his bike.
The victim managed to cycle away on his bike after being stabbed twice in the chest.
He was rushed to Aintree Hospital where doctors found the weapon had penetrated the membrane of his heart and he required an emergency operation.
Doctors said the extent of the wounds required ‘a lot of force, equivalent to a hard punch’.
His friend messaged Biji asking what had happened, in which Biji replied ‘he came here to f*** her’ and warned ‘he would do it to him again’.
He was found guilty of attempted murder, with a judge deciding he should be named in the media despite his age due to the ‘great gravity’ of the crime.
Lloyd Morgan, defending, told the court today: ‘Kevin wants me to express his regret, remorse and shame at committing this offence. The issue at trial was his intention. He accepted causing the injuries.
‘If the opportunity was presented to him of restorative justice he would welcome that opportunity which is, for someone of his age, a very mature step.’
Sentencing, Judge Stuart Driver KC said: ‘The defendant put on a balaclava and picked up the knife. He ambushed his victim. He stabbed him twice with the force of a hard punch. He wanted him to die.
‘The victim continues to suffer physical harm, including a large permanent scar, and psychological harm.
‘It was planned. The victim was deliberately lured into a trap. There was an intention to kill and death was only avoided, firstly, by mere luck and, secondly, by surgical skill.’
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