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Baby killer shot in head by girl's father

CONVICTED: Richard Kwayke, 28, has been jailed for life

A MAN CONVICTED of causing the death of a 19-month girl flagged down a bus with a bullet lodged in his head, a court heard.

Richard Kwakye even flagged down a bus to get to King's College Hospital, south London, where the bus driver stopped and let him off at the A&E department.

“He was bleeding from a wound to his head and was evidently in considerable pain”, Oliver Glasgow, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey this afternoon.

He underwent emergency surgery to have the bullet removed.

Kwakye is said to have sustained the injury when a man named Rilwan Bankole, with previous convictions for robbery and drugs, took him to Goose Green Park East Dulwich and allegedly shot him in the head back in 2003.

Bankole later told police Kwakye had lied about who shot him because the two were involved in a custody battle over a child.

Kwakye was convicted last week of the murder of Bankole's 19-month-old daughter Siariah Letang in an arson attack at her mother's home in September last year.

Bankole, 31, of Thornton Heath, south London, denies attempting to murder Kwakye in October 2003.

Mr Glasgow said Kwakye, who was 20 at the time, had refused to tell police who shot him until six years later.

The trial continues

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At the end of the day bankole

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cutie

At the end of the day bankole allegedly shot him and it was like 7years ago... there was no baby around them times so how sick do you have to be to go seek revenge on a baby, when it happened why didnt he go to the police and even now there was no reason to attack the family home.

Mon, 2012-04-16 19:51

Yes there is and even if this

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Yes there is and even if this man die there would and could have been something else to put this child at risk as this was the life style they chose so there is always going to be a risk, In this day and age none of us can insure are child future, just being in the wrong place at the time, as we read about so often can taken the life of the innocent with child who get mix up with someone else, however in this case it is the Dad & Mum that have taken this child life due to greed, to offered we forget about the bigger picture in these cases, and that being the Dad & Mum associations and life style has chosen this poor Childs future and put her at risk

Tue, 2011-08-02 17:01

Two wrong don’t make a right,

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Two wrong don’t make a right, I think it’s a pitted you can’t pick your family, had her dad not been a killer, this child would have never been in this mix,
This fall on the child dad, his desire this life and in doing so his has decided to place the most helpless in his family at rise. His try to take someone life.
And where was the mum, women need to be more strong and start putting your children before your partner and stop puting the children at rise by staying with partners that put the children at rise, but then there the greed because that would mean these women could not live the life they do self-indulgence, from the funding of the boyfriends.

Tue, 2011-08-02 11:38

Baby Killer Shot In Head By Girl's Father

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Sir/Madam
Very good points. With regard to your comment about the woman ,I couldn't have put it better myself. A lot of them willingly have babies with men like these two despite knowning they have a history/reputation towards violence/drug dealing.

Wed, 2011-08-03 12:39

Baby killer shot in head by girl's father

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what a shame he did not die.

Tue, 2011-08-02 10:13

Pity he didn't die - that

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Pity he didn't die - that little girl wouldn't have needlessly lost her life.....

Mon, 2011-08-01 20:02

Baby Killer Shot In Head By Girl's Father

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Many many more like these two roaming the streets , especially in London.

Tue, 2011-08-02 10:34