A 15-year-old girl murdered a teenage rival with a steel afro comb because she spread gossip about her, the Old Bailey heard on Monday. The alleged killer is said to have plunged the sharpened end of the comb into the skull of policeman's daughter, Julie Sheriff, 16, after spotting her on her south London ‘territory’.
Julie remained in a coma for 19 weeks following the attack but never regained consciousness and died in hospital on September 21 last year.
Jonathan Turner, QC, prosecuting, said the two girls ‘actively disliked’ one another by the time of the attack on May 7. ‘What lay behind this antagonism, the crown cannot say with any certainty,’ he said.
‘But there seems to have been a row brewing between them over certain allegations that Julie had been making about the defendant, and some boyfriend or boyfriends of hers.’
He said the gossip had been spread via the mobile phone network using ‘telephonic sites’. The defendant, now 16, spotted Julie close to a William Hill betting shop in Falcon Road, Clapham, and angrily snapped: ‘What do you think you are doing in Clapham? Why are you here?’ Mr Turner said: ‘There seems to have been some territorial issue between them.’ Just moments after the chance meeting, the defendant was allegedly seen to thrust an overarm blow at Julie’s head.
‘He described [the 16 year-old] as reaching into her bag and pulling out a pin-tail comb and stabbing Julie with it not once but twice,’ Mr Turner said. 'The first one was to Julie’s collarbone, but it barely penetrated, and it was the second blow that went into her making a noise, he said, like a noise it makes when we kill a goat back home.’
Police arrested the alleged killer as she walked to her home in Pimlico in the early hours the next day. She is said to have initially given officers a false name, before asking: ‘Is it about the fight yesterday? I don’t think I did anything wrong.’
Upon searching her, police found a metal comb in her handbag which was later found to have only her own DNA on it.
Posted: at 17-07-2012 11:04 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
richi192 at 17-07-2012 11:34 AM (12 years ago) (f)
may God help us in dis our nation tinz are really getting out of hand anyway signs of end time
Rachael baby(daughter of holy Ghost) says "Jesus Christ is coming soon"....
Posted: at 17-07-2012 11:34 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dlimelite at 17-07-2012 03:15 PM (12 years ago) (f)
Quote from: ajanni on 17-07-2012 01:41 PM
but how can the comb easly enter into her skull as if the head has becomes a tissue paper? nonsense post just full NP these days ooooo
That's what I was thinking too. What kinda afro comb is that sharp and strong. Most Afro metal combs just bend. Not like she was using inlari those very sharp wooden combs of Nigeria.
Posted: at 17-07-2012 03:15 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
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