Pictured shaking hands in celebration on a bus, the thugs who had just hunted down a boy, 16, 'like pack of animals' and stabbed him to death

Leaning across the bus seat, these teenage killers shake hands in a sickening moment of self-congratulation.
One is heard to say to another: ‘You’re the new young boss.’

Just half an hour earlier they had been among a vicious gang who hunted down a schoolboy ‘like a pack of wild dogs’ before knifing him to death.

The gang are now behind bars. They were jailed for a total of 74 years yesterday over the killing in broad daylight in a busy shopping street of 16-year-old Nicholas Pearton.

The teenager was pursued across a suburban park by his attackers, many of whom were still in their school uniform, before he was stabbed through the heart and collapsed in a shop doorway in front of his mother, Kim. Read More