Hassan Sentamu 'bullied by group of swearing girls' day before Elianne Andam stabbing, court told
Hassan Sentamu’s friend thought the teenage killer was being ‘bullied’ by a group of girls the day before he knifed 15-year-old Elianne Andam, a court heard. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told defence counsel Pavlos Panayi KC the confrontation inside the Whitgift Shopping Centre was ‘annoying’ and ‘petty’ during a pre-recorded cross examination played to jurors at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, December 17. Sentamu, 18, denies murdering Elianne in Croydon on September 27 last year on the basis of diminished responsibility due to autism. At the outset, Mr Justice Cheema-Grubb told jurors: "His case will be that the killing was caused entirely by a loss of self-control because his Autism Spectrum Disorder had substantially impaired his ability to exercise self-control." Then aged 17, Sentamu stabbed Elianne to death when she grabbed a Tesco bag from him containing his possessions near a bus stop on Wellesley Road. Sentamu’s ex-girlfriend had agreed to meet ...