Jail for towpath attackers

Published: Monday, 07 December 2009

TWO teenagers have been jailed for attempting to kill a 15 years old pregnant girl on the Regent's Canal towpath and drown her.

It was two musicians who thought the girl would get in their way of fame, who lured her to the canal towpath, hit her repeatedly over the head with a steel bar then pushed her into the waterway, holding her under the water.  But a walker on the towpath saw what was happening, and the attackers ran off.

An ambulance was called and she later recovered in hospital.

Kill her to save his music tuition

The reason for the attack was that the girl's mother was paying for Brandon Jolie's music tuition, and he thought that if the mother knew the girl was expecting his baby at 15, she would stop paying, so the thinking was to kill the girl who stood in the way of his fame.

So he lured his girlfriend to the Regent's Canal in Islington, where  his friend Kingsley Ogundele hit her and tried to drown her.

At the Old Bailey, Ogundele, 19, was jailed for 18 years, and Jolie, 19, was jailed for 14 years for conspiracy to murder.

The Court  heard that Ogundele and his friend Jolie, dreamed of achieving fame in the grime scene, which is a style of urban music which emerged in East London a few years ago.