Damilola murder charge teens remanded in custody

The defendants spoke only when they were asked by district judge Alan Baldwin to give their dates of birth.

Three teenagers accused of the murder of 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor were remanded in custody when they appeared in the dock for the first time today.

Hassan Jihad, an unemployed 19-year-old of Consort Road, Peckham and two brothers aged 16 and 17, also from south London, were charged last night, more than four years after the Nigerian-born youngster was stabbed to death on a run-down estate in Peckham.