Schoolboys get life for murder for dare

Title

Schoolboys get life for murder for dare

Genre

Interview

TX Date

8 Nov 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:00:30

Description

Detective Superintendent Derek Dale, who led the investigation, comments on the life sentences for 19 year-old public schoolboys Jamie Petrolini and Richard Elsey for murdering taxi driver Mohammed el-Sayed at random in Bayswater. They had become obsessed with the SAS and modelled themselves on them, seeing a murder as the ultimate dare. Interviewer not heard.

Contributors

Derek Dale

Keywords

London; Crime; Adolescents; Homicide; Taxi drivers; Trials; Special forces; Sentencing; Bayswater; Mohammed el-Sayed; Richard Elsey; Jamie Petrolini

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