15-year-old stabbed to death in 'act of revenge', teen held for organizing brutal gang attack

15-year-old stabbed to death in 'act of revenge', teen held for organizing brutal gang attack
Tamim Ian Habimana died of a single stab wound to his heart (Met Police)

WOOLWICH, LONDON: A 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the heart in a case of "revenge killing" by a teenager who was found guilty of the crime. Tamim Ian Habimana was attacked in Woolwich, southeast London, in July of last year, when he was travelling home from school; he died from a single heart wound.

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A group of young people were "bent on revenge" after one of the victim's friends, who is now 16 and cannot be named, carried out a stabbing in Dartford nine days earlier. An Old Bailey jury exonerated him of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter and injuring another youngster who was with Tamim.