Life for teenage revenge murder

Glasgow shot Mr Foster as he sat on a wall with friends

A teenager has received a life term for shooting dead a youth worker who he blamed for the theft of a gold chain.

Junior Glasgow, 17, from Brixton, south London, shot Nathan Foster, 18, also from Brixton, six times last August.

Glasgow killed him in "a cold-blooded, premeditated execution" because a friend of Mr Foster stole Glasgow's £800 chain earlier that day.

The teenager must serve a minimum of 21 years of his life sentence in prison, he was told at the Old Bailey.

Sentencing, Judge Peter Rook said: "At your young age, you have become part of the gun culture which is a blight on some of our big cities."

Glasgow did not have the "emotional maturity" to deal with being robbed of his chain and "reacted wholly out of proportion", the judge added.

"You carried out this terrible revenge on someone you mistakenly thought was responsible."

The court heard that an argument had taken place in Marcus Garvey Way between Glasgow and 18-year-old Kori Bell, who was with a group of friends including Mr Foster.

Mr Foster was shot six times, with one bullet going through his heart

During the argument Mr Bell removed Glasgow's chain from around his neck.

Glasgow returned six hours later and shot Mr Foster as he sat on a wall with friends near Brixton Tube station.

One of the six bullets went through Mr Foster's heart and most of the others went into his back as he turned and tried to run.

The defendant, who had denied murder, was arrested eight days later in Cambridge.

During the trial Mr Foster's sister Shannel described him as "my best friend and my favourite brother".

She also read an impact statement from his girlfriend Rochelle Martin, with whom he had a baby son Raheem.

It said Glasgow had "broken so many lives and hearts".