Man jailed over machete revenge killing of boy in front of mother

A man has been jailed for 13 years over the death of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in front of his mother in their own home.

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00:0022-year-old Romario Gordon was jailed at the Old Bailey on Monday for 13 years over the

00:11death of 16-year-old Cameron Smith. Gordon was part of what has been described as a machete

00:19welding mob who barged into the house and chased Cameron into his mother's bedroom where he was

00:27fatally stabbed in front of her. They had hijacked a Toyota Prius minicab and unleashed a crime wave

00:36in Croydon. Gordon, who was 17 at the time, was later seen on CCTV fleeing from the stolen taxi

00:44and disposing of a large machete in an adjacent road. His Old Bailey trial had heard that he had

00:52left the country two days after the killing, but later returned voluntarily. Gordon was found

00:59guilty of manslaughter, but he was the fourth defendant to be convicted for their part in

01:05Cameron's death. 22-year-old Romain Lapierre was found guilty of murder and robbery of the minicab

01:14and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 28 years at a previous Old Bailey trial. As an earlier

01:23trial, Gordon, who has been described as a habitual knife carrier, was cleared of murdering 17-year-old

01:31Damiani Maug, who was stabbed in the chest and neck with a 24-centimetre blade on a London bus in March

01:402020.