Teen jailed for life for stabbing Alan Cartwright, 15, to death in seven second street attack

Joshua Williams was on police bail on suspicion of possessing a four-inch lock knife, but was never charged.

The thug who murdered schoolboy Alan Cartwright for his bike in a seven-second street attack was jailed for a minimum of 21 years today.

Joshua Williams, 18, was told he had carried out “a wholly gratuitous and senseless piece of violence motivated by inquisitive greed.”

Williams stood expressionless with his hands deep in his pockets in the dock at the Old Bailey as Judge Rebecca Poulet QC passed sentence.

But as he was led to the cells cries of “scumbag” rang out from the public gallery.
Alan’s mother Michelle Watson wept bitterly at the back of court although her call for more police powers to cut knife crime today won a raft of support.

Tory Mayor hopeful Zac Goldsmith was among MPs calling for a return of stop and search to deter the routine carrying of knives in public.

Williams was convicted yesterday of murder and conspiracy to rob in the attack in the Caledonian Road in February.

At the time Williams was on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of possessing a four-inch lock knife.

After he was charged with murder the knife case was dropped.

Sentencing Williams to a life term, Judge Poulet said the murder had “rightly horrified and dismayed the public.

“Alan was a wholly innocent boy unconnected to any gang and you have taken life in a pathetic unsuccessful attempt to steal a bike.

“You had readied yourself for the attack with a sharply pointed knife. The whole incident was captured by CCTV.

“We watched you step out with deliberation and swing your left arm at the upper chest. The action is very swift but firm and fatal.

“The knife passed through three layers of clothing and penetrated his body to at least three inches.”

Mrs Watson was eight months pregnant at the time and the judge paid tribute to the way she has had to cope with the “agony, devastation and heartache.”

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Thag poor boy. Riding his bike, 15 years old, and suddenly a low-life piece of shit stabbed him and stole his bike.
He never got to see the baby his mother was carrying, his brother or sister.
May his family soon find peace x


I hope this murdering scum rots in eternal hell.

of course it wasnt "a racist attack at all"
the poor kid wasnt targeted cos he was white was he....ner...couldnt possibly be....

more "enrichment"

<<< waits for the outraged howls of denial......

I didn't see it that way tbh Vic. I assumed the black boy (murdering bastard) just saw a boy on a bike and wanted the bike?
It was dark after all.

Whichever it was, it was horrible and that poor boy lost his life.