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= The Murder of Jermaine Goupall = Jermaine Goupall (31 December 2001 – 08 August 2017) was a black British teenager from Thornton Heath, Surrey, who was murdered in a pre-meditated attack while on his way home on the evening of 08 August 2017. Jermaine was buried on 29 September 2017.

Jermaine's Life
Jermaine was a student at St Joseph's College and Saturday school student at Croydon Supplementary Education Project until the date of his passing. Jermaine died during the summer holiday which he would have been going into year 11 to sit his GCSE’s. Jermaine was also an active member of Swimming and was at the top level of swimming and started swimming when he was 5 years old and done this until the age 14 years old.

Jermaine had aspirations of being either an architect or a commercial gas engineer as he was very inspired by his father successfully owing and running his business in electrical engineer in which at some point Jermaine wanted to take over.

Murder
The case was widely reported by news outlets nationally and globally; its fallout included cultural changes of attitudes on the genre of Drill Music, to the law, music industries and police practice.

Jermaine was attacked while walking home in the CR7 postcode. The attack was the result of an ongoing postcode war - he was mistaken for an enemy from the CR0 gang and stabbed seven times by a group of five masked youths consisting of four males and one female. He died of a stab wound to the thigh.

A “drill” music video is said to have foreshadowed the way Jermaine was killed. Part of a series of music videos from rival gangs which contributed to growing tensions between gangs. YouTube stated that “We have developed policies specifically to help tackle content related to gang and knife crime.” The video was taken down a year after the incident.

Trial
The court trial took place at The Old Bailey. It began on 08 January 2018 and four out of the five were convicted on 14 February 2018 resulting in three of the offenders being sentenced to a total of 72 years in prison for pre-meditated murder. Saskia Haye-Elliot sentenced to manslaughter and Daniel Luke acquitted due to a lack of evidence.

Saskia Haye-Elliot, 18, of North Downs Crescent, New Addington, Samuel Oliver-Rowland, 18, of Epsom Road, Waddon, Daniel Luke, 18, of Donald Road, Croydon, Adam Bezanhi, 21, of Wrythe Lane, Carshalton, and the 16-year-old all deny murdering Jermaine. All five charged were questioned, Bezanhi refused to go on the stand to be questioned.

On the first day of the trial, the court was told by Mukul Chawla QC (Jermaine’s Barrister) that Haye-Elliot says she thought they were going to "annoy or irritate" members of the CR7 gang by videoing them for Snapchat or YouTube. Haye-Elliot and Simpson both accept they were in the Ford Focus car that was driven to the scene on the night of Jermaine’s death, August 08 2017.

During the trial Simpson said he was not aware that anyone was hurt until the three other passengers in the car returned. He also denied knowledge of and unaware of any knives, masks or balaclavas being in the car, as the prosecution alleges. To which he stated. “I am already scared as it is.”

The court heard how Simpson has a previous conviction of possessing a knife, in 2015, to which he pleaded guilty.