Overview
- Judge Francis Laird KC sentenced Tyler Bradley to a 17-year extended term (14 years in custody and three on licence) and Wayne Boyd to a 16-year extended term (13 in custody and three on licence, both to serve two‑thirds before parole consideration).
- Leon Keenan received 50 months and Kaya Azhar 48 months for wounding with intent, while Ebony Watt was given a two‑year community order with a mental‑health treatment requirement and 25 rehabilitation days.
- A December trial found Bradley and Boyd guilty of attempted murder, with Keenan and Azhar convicted of section 18 wounding with intent under joint enterprise, and Watt convicted of perverting the course of justice.
- CCTV showed the group chasing a 17‑year‑old across Hemlington before a sustained assault as he lay in the fetal position, leaving him with multiple sharp‑force wounds, a fractured skull and other serious injuries.
- Prosecutors detailed rapid post‑attack phone communications and instructions to hide a knife in Watt’s garden; Azhar later led police to the weapon, with forensics indicating he did not use it, yet he was still convicted as part of the group.