Kinsella killers jailed for life

Three youths were given life sentences with minimum terms of 19 years in the UK today for killing Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of former 'Eastenders' actress Brooke Kinsella.

Juress Kika, (aged 19), Jade Braithwaite, (aged 18), and Michael Alleyne, (aged 20), from London, were convicted of murder at the Old Bailey, yesterday.

Ben and his friends had been to a bar to celebrate the end of their GCSE exams when a row broke out in Islington, north London, on June 29 last year.

Although the confrontation had nothing to do with him, he was chased along the street with other youngsters – and stabbed to death when he stopped running.

Ben was stabbed 11 times in five seconds by the three youths in revenge for the “disrespect” shown to Braithwaite earlier.

Brooke Kinsella, 25, said after the verdict: “I am overjoyed.

“It’s awful, awful, but we got all we needed – it’s justice. There is never going to be enough justice but we have got it now.”

Yesterday, father George, 49, said: “Our precious and gentle son Ben was brutally murdered on the streets of London.

“How many families like ours will have to stand outside the Old Bailey to get justice? Our son’s only crime was to be the last one to run away from those animals. Knife crime is now sadly embedded in the heart of Great Britain, always running the lives of gangs and feral youths."