Jurors heard the group targeted 17-year-old Buba because he “had the appearance” of a member of a rival gang

Murder victim Bubacar Jabbie Dukureh (credit: Met Police)

A fifth teenager has finally been found guilty of a gang-related Walthamstow murder after avoiding a previous trial because he was abroad.

On 23rd October 2020, Bubacar Jabbie Dukureh – known locally as Buba – was ambushed by five teenage boys on his doorstep in Westbury Road and fatally stabbed in the chest.

Jurors at the Old Bailey heard the attackers were associated with the Priory Court Boys gang and targeted 17-year-old Buba because he “had the appearance” of a member of a rival gang, the Mali Boys.

Four of the boys – Samuel Bartley, 19, Jamal Dakissaga-Benitez, 19, Alfie Ferguson, 19, and Kaiyan Decordova, 20 – were previously found guilty of murder but the fifth and youngest member, only 15 at the time of the murder, was finally convicted on 9th January.

The boy, who cannot be named due to his young age, has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced at a later date, which has yet to be fixed.

At the trial earlier this week, jurors heard the group had “carefully prepared” for a “ride-out to an area controlled by rival gangs” to “provoke and if necessary confront rivals”.

They were also played a video set to a drill rap, found on one of the boy’s phones, which focused on the victim’s address and appeared to be “glorifying” the murder.

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