The mother of a student knifed to death for teasing a friend about his looks said the “cold-blooded” killer should never be released from prison.
Attacker Uche Ejimonye, 20, today faces being sentenced to life by the Old Bailey after he was convicted of murdering Vaso Kakko, 17, in Holloway.
The court heard he slashed the teenager’s throat last November before plunging the blade into his back in revenge after being called “meathead” and teased for not having a girlfriend.
Vaso’s mother Zhaneta, 49, told the Standard: “That monster was a cold-blooded, professional killer. He should never be released from jail.”
Cannabis dealer Ejimonye, of Holloway, left his victim to bleed to death in a communal garden — a few hundred yards from where 16-year-old student Ben Kinsella was murdered in 2008 — and fled to Bognor Regis, where he was arrested a week later.
Ms Kakko attended all seven days of the trial but fled the court in tears when her son’s killer acted out the moment he “sliced him” in the witness box.
She described Vaso, an ex-pupil at St Mary Magdalene Academy who was taking a business apprenticeship while working as an estate agent, as “a hard-working, perfect boy” with ambitions to work in the City. At her home in Newington Green, with she lives with eldest son Bruno, 25, and where the walls are covered with photographs of the boy she lost, she said: “Prison is too good for Vaso’s killer.
“He’s still breathing, he’s still alive and his family can still visit him. I had to bury my son. We only have pictures.
“My son wasn’t given a chance to grow up. Half of me died with him, the other half is with Bruno.”
She disputed Ejimonye’s claims in court that he was acting in self-defence, saying: “It was horrible to see and they tried to ruin my son’s good name. I thanked God the jury saw through his lies and came back saying guilty.”
Ms Kakko moved to the UK from Greece when Vaso was four and said tougher action is needed to end the plague of knife crime.
Her son was the 18th teenager murdered on the capital’s streets in 2015.
She said: “There needs to be stronger sentencing for people found with knives but it’s too late for my son.”
Vaso’s girlfriend Ayse said: “He was the light of my life and I feel lost now. This pain will never go away. We were supposed to spend our lives together.”
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