TWO men have been jailed for life in Britain for murdering a schoolboy with a submachine-gun as he slept in his bed at home, in a case of mistaken identity during a gang war.
Michael Dosunmu, 15, was hit by four bullets, one hitting in the heart, fired by two gunmen who had burst into his south London home looking for his brother.
They had been fighting with his brother Hakeem Dosunmu over the proceeds from a series of robberies, prosecutors told the Old Bailey.
Mohammed Sannoh, 19, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, both from south London, were convicted today of murder and firearms offences after the jury deliberated for nine days.
Jailing them for life yesterday, Judge Stephen Kramer said they would not be eligible for parole for at least 30 years.
"This was a planned and premeditated killing," the judge told the court. "It was an execution. You both, quite probably acting with another person or others, carried out this killing in an act of revenge.
"It was a death that could only invoke in all right-minded people feelings of outrage, shock and sympathy for Michael's family."
During the trial, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the court the shooting happened just before 1am on February 6 last year, when the men forced their way into Michael's house in Peckham.
"They went straight to the first floor and entered one of the three bedrooms," he said. "They turned the light on and opened fire with a MAC-10 submachine-gun at a figure lying wrapped in a duvet.
"It was a well-planned and well-executed execution. The victim had no chance of surviving."
Michael's older brother was involved in drug dealing and had taken part in three successful raids on security vans, the court was told.
Sannoh was part of the robbery team and he and other members believed Hakeem had cheated them.
The jury was told that members of the robbery team believed that a cash box the gang's leader had said was empty was in fact full of cash.
One of them confronted the gang leader and was stabbed to death. The gang leader was arrested, leaving Hakeem as the target for the aggrieved robbery team, the court was told.
"Hakeem was the target on the night his brother was killed," Mr Laidlaw said.
"It was a revenge attack, or else Michael was killed deliberately to punish Hakeem. But it appears he was shot in error because of the money they believed they had been cheated out of and the murder of the other gang member."
The court was told Hakeem Dosunmu was sentenced to two years' jail in April for his part in the security van robberies.
His sentence was reduced from five years.
The court was told he "carries around with him the thought that it should have been him".