29/09/2014 BBC London News

A 15`year`old has been found guilty of shooting dead his girlfrhend

Shereka Marsh, who went to visit him with a birthday present,

was hit by a single bullet fired from a counterfeit pistol.

The teenage boy, who can't be named for legal reasons,

was found guilty of manslaughter, but cleared of murder.

Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt Guy Smith reports.

She was just 15. Here, getthng on a bus earlier this year, to mdet her

boyfriend in Hackney. She h`s just brought him a birthday presdnt. An

hour later she is dead ` shot by her boyfriend in his bedroom. Hd claims

it was a mistake. Today at the Old Bailey he was found guilty of

manslaughter. It was his birthday on that day. She had gone to vhsit him

to sort of see him on his bhrthday. As I say, there was no reason for

him to get the firearm out `nd obviously ultimately shoot her. The

court heard the teenager was banging his head against the cage of the

police van when he was arrested telling officers, can I say sorry to

her mum ` it was an accident. My girl died on my birthday.

This is the weapon ` a fake 193 s handgun. Police found ammunhtion in

a cardboard box in the 15`ydar`old boy's bedroom. We are unabld to name

him because of his age. A shngle bullet hit her left wrist and then

her neck. At first, he told police he had

found the gun here on Hackndy Marshes. In a written statelent he

said he agreed to look after it for someone else. He refused to name

that person. He said, I am not a snitch.

This former member of a notorious gang in South London spent ten years

in prison for firearms offences He knows about the consequences of

so`called snitching. Partictlarly when it involves a gun. Obvhously

snitching where we grew up `nd that, it is forbidden. Things can happen

to your family. Things can happen to your friends. Lots of things. There

is a very big repercussion. It was not on the agenda. She was ` year 11

pupil. Fellow students raisdd money to help pay for her funeral. This

film is dedicated to their beloved friend and sister.

And made a video as a tribute to their friend.

This church minister helps parents who have lost their children to

violence. She has been helphng the mother who has been left devastated.

There is a lesson hooer to learn for him and everybody else involved in

hiding weapons for older people The person who should go down for

murder, as far as I am concdrned s the person or persons that put the

gun into the hand of a child. And that child, the victim's mother

said, will be haunted by thd memory of what happened on his 15th

birthday. That he destroyed her daughter's life through his own

stupidity and recklessness. A minicab operator

from London has been arrestdd in Bangladesh accused of trxing to

recruit jihadists to fight for Samiun Rahman, who's 24 and from

Holborn, was arrested yesterday and He's accused of travelling to the

Middle East to run a terrorhst cell It's been reported that he denies

the charges and claims to h`ve been Mayor Boris Johnson has said any

other Tory MPs thinking of defecting He arrived at his party conference

in Birmingham this afternoon Boris Johnson is if nothing but an

enthusiast. Today, he visitdd a factory in Newcastle`under`Lyme

Actually it was clay that w`s very shortly to become brick. Delicious!

It looks good enough to eat, doesn't it? He hopes good enough to build

the thousands of new homes he wants for London. Wow! That is like a

blazing fiery furnace. A furnace where many Conservatives wotld like

to send any other MPs thinkhng of defecting to UKIP. If they `re

thinking of jumping ship, they are bonkers. Because this is, as I say,

a great time to be a Conservative. So this is the role Mr Johnson is

shaping for himself as he bdgins the transition of Mayor of London to MP.

Still willing to break the lould. Can Boris the builder fix it for

them? Is he the populist politician who can take UKIP on. Is he a joker

who can make his party feel good about itself, without ever winning

its trust? The question for many Tories can Boris the Builder ` what

was it? Can he fix it? Can xou? Of course he can.

There you go! Perfect! Good Party members were not so sure. I think

Boris takes on the world and makes it a happier place. Boris whll be an

asset to the party when he comes back to Parliament and part of the

team, I hope. Boris is very good. Boris can carry on being a layor.

That he will. Only until 2006. As for then, well, who knows!

Time for me to wish you a very goodnight.

And hand you over to Wendy Hurrell for the weather.

Some of the warmth will continue into October.

As we go through tonight, there will be generally mild weather, `ctually.

There will be a bit of clear sky. We have some cloud drifting around

That will keep temperatures into double figures for many of ts. There

might be one or two mist or fog patches. It will be a dry nhght We

start tomorrow with the risk of a shower. Firstly for Sussex `nd Kent.

Into the afternoon one or two might crop up here and there. It hs a

largely dry day. Some breaks in the cloud for some sunny spells. Once

again we are up to 22 Celsits, which is well above where I would expect

it to be at this point in the year. On the outlook then we have more

warm weather continuing into Wednesday. Some cloud around might

give one or two showery outbreaks. Thursday and Friday, largelx dry

days. On Friday it will be ` bit more breezy. Now for the national

weather. more breezy. Now for the national

weather. Good evening. We all know that

summer has been a bit extended this year. It has been a very dry and

warm month. On the final day of September, we are promised more dry

weather once we have lost early morning mist and fog. There will be

some rain creeping into western areas. Ahead of that, we have been

drawing up big showers from France. A few thunder storms today.

Downpours over the north Midlands and north-east England. The showers

will go out to the North