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A man has
been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years for
stabbing a CBBC star to death outside a nightclub in an 'entirely
unprovoked and unnecessary attack'.
Carl
Beatson-Asiedu, who appeared in the BBC children's series M.I. High,
was set upon and stabbed in the heart as he left a club with friends in
2009.
His
killer Jeffrey Okafor, 24, confessed to the murder to his girlfriend,
but fled to Nigeria on his brother's passport - sparking a five year
manhunt.
He was eventually extradited and was yesterday found guilty of murder after a trial at London's Woolwich Crown Court.
Sentencing
him today to life with a minimum of 17 years and 146 days, Judge
Christopher Kinch QC said: 'I have concluded that this was an entirely
unprovoked and unnecessary attack in a public place.'
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