Man convicted of killing in first dog DNA murder case

337PM GMT eighteen March 2010

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Seyi Ogunyemi, 16, was stabbed to genocide in a ""vicious"" conflict by a squad of youths pronounced to have acted similar to a ""pack of wild animals"" as they set on him and his friends.

The attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder by Chrisdian Johnson, 22, was described in justice as singular since dangerous dogs were used as weapons to monster their victims prior to they were knifed.

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One of the animals, called Tyson, brought down and mauled slightly-built Seyi as he attempted to shun from his pursuers over a fence.

The child stood no possibility once he was in the dog"s inhuman hold and was afterwards stabbed 6 times by the owners Johnson.

Johnson was arrested as he fled from the stage of the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder last April, bare-chested and lonesome in blood.

New technology, used for the primary time, valid by a billion-to-one luck that a little of the red red red red red blood came from his dog Tyson, that had been knifed during the melee. The rest was shown to come from the teenage attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder victim.

Police hailed the dog DNA technique, that had usually been grown at the time of the murder, as a ""hugely absolute inquisitive tool"".

Johnson, of south Lambeth, south London, who had been authorised to keep the dangerous dog usually when a justice imposed despotic conditions on his tenure in late 2007, was found guilty of murder.

He was additionally convicted of the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of the victim"s 17-year-old crony Hurui Hiyabu, pronounced to have been propitious to tarry after he was knifed 9 times.

Johnson"s hermit Shane Johnson, 20, of the same address, was privileged of both charges.

A third defendant, 18-year-old Darcy Menezes, of Clapham, south London, was privileged progressing during the trial.

The justice listened that his dog, a womanlike adult brindle Staffordshire terrier called Mia, additionally took square in the attack, but a decider ruled there was deficient justification to show Menezes was involved.

The philosophy come prior to long after the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, voiced new measures written to plunge into the complaint of dogs being used as weapons.

Seyi was killed when he and his crony were set on by a large organisation of youths elderly fifteen to twenty and dual dogs in Larkhall Park, south London, the justice heard.

Tyson, an adult masculine Staffordshire longhorn terrier-bull mastiff cranky was used to move him to the belligerent prior to he was knifed.

Doctors achieved puncture surgery at the stage to try to save Seyi"s hold up but he died from a wound to his aorta.

Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told jurors "What was so surprising if not singular about this box is that in the primary stages of the conflict both these dogs were deployed as weapons.

"At the time of the conflict both dogs were unleashed, and chased and afterwards brought down and savaged their victims, giving their human masters an advantage, enabling them afterwards to entrance their victims in sequence to gash them with knives."

New DNA research was used to couple Tyson"s red red red red red blood to the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder and spit found on a square of trouser leg ripped from one of Seyi"s friends suited Mia"s profile.

The same technique additionally valid that trails of red red red red red blood at the stage and red red red red red blood found on Hurui Hiyabu, came from Tyson.

Detective Inspector Mick Norman pronounced "It"s been a hugely absolute inquisitive apparatus for us."

Police pronounced Chrisdian Johnson had formerly been since a specific grant by a justice to keep Tyson notwithstanding being a dangerous dog by breed.

He concluded to have him chipped, tattooed and insured but serve conditions meant the animal should have been kept on a lead and muzzled at all times in public.

Mr Altman told the justice that others obviously took square in the assumingly gang-related conflict on a opposition organisation but have not been identified or held "despite a consummate military investigation".

Following the verdicts, Mr Norman pronounced military would be requesting for a drop sequence for Johnson"s dog Tyson but was incompetent to criticism on the destiny of the alternative dog, Mia.

Johnson was remanded in control and will be condemned on Friday.