The Late Stephen Ojerinola |
Two
men have been jailed today [Dec. 17] for a total 17 years after a Nigerian-Born
teenager was killed and his body buried under a shed in Eltham. The battered
body of 18-year-old Stephen Ojerinola
was found encased in concrete under a newly-built patio and shed last November
by police sniffer dogs.
William Regan, aged 37, of Lynsted Gardens,
Eltham, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 14 years in prison for
manslaughter and four years for preventing lawful burial, to run concurrently.
His
accomplice Lee Davies, aged 36, of
Chiswell Square, Blackheath, was also jailed for three years for preventing
lawful burial at the site in Regan's garden.
Regan pleaded guilty to manslaughter on
the eve of his retrial on November 20. He had previously admitted unlawful
burial but denied murder - claiming self-defence - and was facing a retrial
after jurors failed to reach a verdict in June.
Davies pleaded guilty to unlawful burial
but was cleared by a jury of murder and manslaughter on June 15.
During
the earlier trial, the court heard how the teenager was stabbed, hit with a
hammer and baseball bat before being buried beneath rubble and concrete around
April 12 last year - with a chocolate bar wrapper found discarded in the tomb.
Jurors
heard Mr Ojerinola was involved with
drugs and that addict Regan, who
regularly committed burglaries to fund his habit, may have contacted him to buy
some. Following the death, activity “normally
reserved for fiction” took place with a shed, concrete and cladding
used to hide the “gruesome” details.
Detective
Chief Inspector John McFarlane, of
the Met’s homicide and serious crime command, said:
Stephen Ojerinola suffered a violent death at the hands of Regan, a drug
addicted criminal known for his predisposition for violence.
"Having killed Stephen, Regan displayed a level of remorselessness and callousness,
normally reserved for fiction, by getting an accomplice in Davies to help him hide the body in a shallow grave covered by a
patio and a shed and proceeding to use his garden as if this gruesome act had
never occurred.
"I am pleased that today
Stephen's family have seen those responsible for his death and the indecent
disposal of his body go to prison and hope that it goes some small way towards
helping them, having attended court each day and have acted with dignity whilst
having to listen to traumatic evidence, cope with their loss”.
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