The sister of a teenager stabbed to death as he walked home from a friend’s birthday party today said his killers should “rot in prison”.
Gary Scott, 17, of Tottenham, became involved in a row with two men as he passed a basketball court in Finsbury Park. The trainee mechanic was knifed in the leg by the attackers, who fled. He died in hospital shortly afterwards.
Adrian Carpenter, 30, was today facing a life sentence after being found guilty of murder. Jermaine Reid, 28, was convicted of manslaughter following a trial at Woolwich crown court. They were being sentenced today.
Gary’s sister Derricka Holding, 28, said: “It doesn’t matter how many years they serve, they are still alive and my brother is not. I would like them to rot in prison. I am relieved at the verdicts but they will never bring Gary back.”
Ms Holding, who lives in Woodford Green with her daughter, five, said her brother’s death had devastated his family and friends. She said: “He was my life, my everything, the one person I could always trust and I’m really struggling. He used to pick my daughter up from ballet and karate classes whenever I was working, but now I’ve had to stop work to look after her. She keeps asking me when she is going to see her uncle, and if she can have a jam sandwich the way that he used to make them.”
Gary, who was in the second year of a mechanics course at Waltham Forest College, had been walking back to the home in Stroud Green he shared with his mother Annette, 54, when he was attacked on December 1. Reid and Carpenter, both of Stroud Green, were also found guilty of drug offences.
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