Stabbed teen, 14, ‘was groomed by drug gangsters’

Mum's murder heartbreak

- By Paul Jeeves Crime Editor

A BOY of 14 stabbed to death on a bus had been groomed by drug-running gangsters after he left care and lived on the streets, his heartbroken mother has said.

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was attacked in Woolwich, south-east London, and died there just before 2.30pm on Tuesday, in what police described as a "horrendous" crime.

His mother Mary said her once-happy son's life had been destroyed by thugs who plied him with drugs.

She added: "My son and others were taken advantage of by gangs. They were groomed. He was missing for a year and was living on the street.

"He finally turned up at my doorstep, he was sick, underweight and tattooed. He wouldn't tell me anything about his friends."