MS shop assistant 'stabbed nine times in unprovoked brutal and fatal attack'

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A Marks & Spencer shop assistant was brutally hacked to death in what has been described as an unprovoked attack, the Old Bailey heard today.

Anthony Adekola was walking home from his shift in the early evening of Saturday, September 5 when a group of men leapt out of two taxis and dragged him down an alleyway in Colindale, north west London.

The court heard how the unarmed 22-year-old was stabbed nine times and was almost certainly dead when paramedics arrived. A 16-year-old boy appeared on video-link at the Old Bailey today charged with his murder.

Tom Doble prosecuting said: "On 5 September 2020, a group of young men travelling by taxi from Hendon to Colindale set off shortly after 8.42pm. "Arriving half an hour later seven young men