Moment schoolboy, 16, stabbed to death by two teen thugs with ninja swords in mistaken identity botched hit
THIS is the shocking moment a teen was stabbed from behind by thugs wielding ninja swords in a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Ronan Kanda, 16, was walking back from his friend’s house after buying a Playstation controller when he was set up by the teens.
Chilling footage showed the schoolboy casually looking at his phone unaware of the horror behind him.
Just seconds later, the two hooded assailants ran up behind him clutching a ninja sword and machete.
Tragically, Ronan was just yards from his home in Wolverhampton when he was stabbed twice by Prabjeet Veadhesa, 17.
He collapsed in the road and died from catastrophic injuries after being knifed in the heart.
Veadhesa and Sukhman Shergill, also 17, have now been jailed for life after being convicted of murder.
Reporting restrictions protecting their identities were lifted at Wolverhampton Crown Court today.
The court was told on June 29 last year, Veadhesa had collected a Ninja sword set and a large machete from a local post-office that he’d bought online.
He had taken a dislike to one of Ronan’s friends so hatched a violent plot with three of his own pals involving the weapons.
All four travelled in a red Vauxhall Corsa driven to the scene of the murder where they spotted Ronan.
The unwitting teen was walking down Mount Road at around 8.30pm and was almost home when he was ambushed.
Although Veadhesa inflicted the fatal blows, Shergill was found to have acted in the joint enterprise murder.
Ronan’s family, who wore “Justice for Ronan” t-shirts in court, paid tribute to the snooker-loving teen who had just finished his GCSEs.
His mum Pooja addressed the killers directly after she lost a “lifetime of dreams, hopes and ambitions”.
She said: “On 29 June 2022 my innocent son was murdered. I remember kissing his cheek and saying you look very handsome and waving at him before his father dropped him off to the snooker club – I replay this in my mind every day.
“That was the last time I saw my son alive. Nothing on this earth will satisfy my maternal desire to hold my son in my arms.
“Your evil actions have taken my son’s life.”
Calling for an end to knife crime, his sister Nikita said: “We need to do more to stop knife crime. You know how easy it is to acquire a knife. You can just go online and you can just buy a machete.
“I want to call out the MPs. I want to call out the Prime Minister. I want to call out society and say that we need to do more to ensure that not another innocent life gets taken from knife crime.”