{"id":452165,"date":"2026-03-01T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:23:08","slug":"man-arrested-over-killing-croydon-boy-16-in-front-of-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452165\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over killing Croydon boy, 16, in front of his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c93dz4n283lo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey<\/a> in November 2025, the court heard how a group &#8220;effectively hunting as a pack&#8221; had hijacked a minicab to look for rival gang members following a different stabbing earlier that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After entering two other properties, they kicked down the door to Camron&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teenager, who was unarmed and in his underwear, was chased to a bedroom where he and his mother, Audrey Johnson, attempted to barricade themselves inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson told the court she had stood with her arms outstretched to protect her son and had tried to grab a 16-inch (40cm) &#8220;zombie knife&#8221; from one of the attackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Camron was fatally stabbed in the struggle that followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest arrest follows the sentencing of four men for their involvement in the attack:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romario Gordon, 22, was jailed for 13 years for manslaughter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Romain La Pierre, 22, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 28 years for murder and robbery<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan Tcheuko, 21, was jailed for 15 years for manslaughter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Olanipekun, 19, was sentenced to eight years for manslaughter and robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey in November 2025, the court heard how a group &#8220;effectively&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}