Risaan Udayakumar, an 18-year-old civil engineering student, who lived with his parents in Wembley, died in hospital after being stabbed three times in the heart at his girlfriend’s home in Watford.
His 17-year-old killer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, fatally stabbed Risaan after finding him hiding in the property’s adjoining garage on July 10. A jury found him guilty of manslaughter due to a loss of control but cleared him of murder. The 17-year-old boy who stabbed his sister's secret boyfriend to death has now been detained for seven years.
In a statement his grieving parents said they did not attend the sentencing by “way of protest” at the “weak legal team” and that the sentence was “not proper justice for our innocent son”.
They said- “As a family we cannot put into words how completely devastated we are and how Risaan’s untimely and cruel death has impacted our lives.”
St Alban’s Crown Court heard that before the stabbing a member of the public called police after he discovered Risaan crouched in the corner of the garage with multiple stab wounds, following a disturbance. The parents of the boy and his 19-year-old sister were away on holiday at the time of the killing but had left strict instructions that she and her brother were not to have friends over to the house. Because of the parents’ “strict views” about relationships, their daughter had decided not to tell them that she was in a relationship with Risaan.
