A detective superintendent has issued a chilling warning after a boy was tragically stabbed to death amid a postcode gang war in Newtown.

Sekou Doucoure, who was also carrying a knife, was just 16 when he was killed at the Esso petrol station on Nursery Road on July 12, 2022.

Now, after killer Ishmael Farquharson was this week found guilty, the detective superintendent from the case warned of the "very serious consequences for carrying a knife."

Young Sekou had once played for Nottingham Forest academy but slipped into gang culture. In court, he was described as a 'prominent young member' of a gang called Get Round Der (GRD), which associated itself with the B20 areas of Perry Barr and Handsworth Wood.

His family had said "despite shortcomings", he was a "good boy and son" and was

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