Teenager Jailed for Stabbing 15-Yr-Outdated Lady to Demise in Combat Over Teddy Bear

A youngster who stabbed a 15-year-old schoolgirl to demise in England has been sentenced,

On Thursday, March 13, Hassan Sentamu was sentenced to no less than 23 years in jail for the September 2023 homicide of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, based on court docket sentencing remarks.

In line with the BBC, Sentamu killed Andam on the morning of Sept. 27, 2023, after he had lately damaged up together with her pal and had seen the ladies teasing him on the Whitgift buying middle in Croydon, south London.

After telling a pal he couldn’t “let this slide,” the then-17-year-old met up together with his ex and Andam the following day as a part of a pre-planned assembly to swap objects they’d exchanged throughout their relationship, together with a teddy bear that his ex was “particularly eager to get again,” per the sentencing remarks.

Nevertheless, Sentamu confirmed up empty-handed with out the objects regardless of his ex returning his objects, per a January 2025 Metropolitan Police information launch. 

In line with the discharge, Andam ran up behind Sentamu and grabbed the bag of things that had simply been returned to him. Sentamu proceeded to chase Andam earlier than eradicating a knife from his waistband and stabbing her repeatedly, “together with in her neck – a wound which proved deadly,” per police.

“After she collapsed to the bottom, passers-by gave Elianne fast medical consideration whereas they awaited the arrival of emergency providers who rushed to the scene, arriving inside minutes,” the discharge continued.

Andam acquired 4 wounds within the assault and died on the scene, per the sentencing remarks. Sentamu fled the scene and went on to cover the knife behind a wall in a yard, however he was positioned by police and arrested lower than 25 minutes after Andam’s demise.

“I shut my eyes and see the horror of what she will need to have endured – the worry, the ache – and it breaks me time and again,” Andam’s father Michael mentioned in an announcement to the Outdated Bailey per the BBC. “The considered her ultimate moments torments me – questioning if she was calling out for me, hoping I’d save her – however I wasn’t there.”

He added, “I could not defend her. That guilt will weigh on my coronary heart for the remainder of my life.”

The BBC reported Sentamu was additionally given a one-year concurrent sentence for illegally possessing a knife.

The court docket heard that Sentamu had a troubled childhood and was given a police warning when he was 12 after he took a knife to high school.

Different abusive habits included placing women into headlocks and threatening to injure and chop off the tail of a foster carer’s cat, per the BBC.

Throughout his sentencing on March 13, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb addressed Sentamu and advised him he was “much less ready than others to precise your self and perceive the ideas and emotions of others.”

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“You haven’t but absolutely developed the power to deal with your personal robust emotions akin to these of worthlessness,” she continued. “These options present private mitigation.”

“The duty for Elianne’s demise shall be with you for the remainder of your day,” Cheema-Grubb added. “For the homicide of Elianne Andam on 27 September 2023, you may be detained for no less than 23 years which implies, after counting the times served to this point, a minimal time period of 21 years and 199 days.”