2 jailed in London for killing Trini student

TWO TEENAGERS who stabbed a Trinidadian student to death last year were jailed at the Old Bailey in London yesterday.

Kelvin Henry was described as an evil young killer who stabbed a complete stranger through the heart with a hunting knife. He was jailed for at least seven years and 10 months. Henry, who was just 16 years old at the time of the murder, was told by Judge Gerald Gordon QC that he would not be considered for parole until the end of this term.  Paul Robinson, also 16 when he passed Henry the eight-inch murder weapon, was sentenced to six and a half years for manslaughter and trying to dispose of the knife. Adrian Worrell, a 19-year-old student and an only child, was knifed to death for no reason and without warning at Vauxhall’s New Covent Garden Market in February last year. Henry and Robinson laughed as they fled the scene and later boasted of what they had done while washing blood from the knife.

In passing sentence, Judge Gordon told Henry: “As a result of your deliberate and evil act, a young life was lost. You stabbed him through the heart with a knife, which you obtained very shortly before you used it. What is clear is that when you used it you intended to cause really serious harm.” To Robinson, the judge said: “You went out with a knife which you had no justification to have had.  If you had nost handed the knife over, the victim would be alive today.”  When convicted, Henry — the product of a troubled childhood —broke down and sobbed in the dock: “Sorry mum, sorry.”  But Adrian’s mother Tracey Worrell, a 39-year-old social services worker, said: “It’s me he should have said sorry to. He stabbed my only child in the heart. He didn’t have a chance in hell of  surviving.”  The stabbing punctured Adrian’s lung, main artery and heart and he bled to death at the scene.