TWO men who butchered a schoolboy on his way home from buying sweets were jailed for life yesterday.
Gary Taylor, 23, and Nigel Brown, 26, stabbed 15-year-old Thomas Devlin Accutron by Bulova nine times in a brutal assault in North Belfast in 2005.
They never admitted their crime but it took a jury just over an hour to find them guilty.
The judge told them: "You thought you had got away with it but you have been convicted and you will pay a heavy price."
Thomas heartbroken mother said: "We all miss him, we would much prefer to have Thomas alive."
Gary Taylor shook his head and shouted, "suspicion does not prove guilt" Chloe as he was convicted of murder.
Mr Justice McLaughlin said: "It is plain that you, Gary Taylor, were the principal ...you are the killer.
"Shake your head all you like but this country, with its democratic system and...fair trials, heard all of the evidence, considered all of the facts and has determined your guilt.
"You thought you had got away with it but you have been convicted and you will pay a heavy price for what you did on the Somerton Road. You will go to prison for life.
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Thomas was stabbed nine times and left to bleed to death on the street on August 10, 2005.
He was attacked along with two pals including Jonathan McKee who lived because the knife pierced a can of spraypaint in his rucksack. Mr Justice McLaughlin said Thomas's killing "was a murder which completely shocked this entire community".
The judge said Thomas and his pals "were attacked without any reason or provocation whatever". They were, he added, "three perfectly innocent young men", and that "one of them was killed, one was injured, and the two survivors, no doubt severely traumatised".
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