By GB News (World News) | Created at 2024-12-19 15:51:12 | Updated at 2024-12-19 19:04:48
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Four teenagers have been detained for life for the murders of friends Max Dixon and Mason Rist.
Rist, 15, and Dixon, 16, died from stab wounds after being chased by the four armed teenagers in the Knowle West area of Bristol at about 11pm on January 27 this year.
Their attackers – Riley Tolliver, 18,Kodishai Westcott, 17, and two boys aged 15 and 16 who cannot be named due to their age had been driven to Ilminster Avenue by Antony Snook, 45.
All five were convicted of two counts of murder last month following a six-week trial at Bristol Crown Court. Snook was later jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 38 years.
Mason Rist and Max Dixon
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Justice May detained the 15-year-old boy for life with a minimum term of 15 years and 229 days, and the 16-year-old boy for life with a minimum term of 18 years and 44 days.
The judge told the two anonymous defendants: "You were part of a group who attacked and killed two boys. The boys you killed were Mason Rist and Max Dixon. They were your age. They had done nothing wrong. They didn’t attack the house, they had nothing to do with it."
"You have heard how much pain you have caused to their families. Max and Mason’s families must go on without them in a different way. Your lives will change too. As Mason’s sister said, there are no winners here."
Tolliver was jailed for life at Bristol Crown Court today and will serve at least 23 years and 47 days.
The judge also handed the 17-year-old, Kodishai Westcott, who was named for the first time in court - a life sentence, with a minimum term of 23 years and 44 days.
Bristol Crown Court heard how Snook and the armed teenagers set out for revenge after masked youths wielding machetes threw bricks at a property in the Hartcliffe area, injuring a woman.
Rist and Dixon, who had been best friends since attending nursery together, were heading out for a pizza when they were spotted by those in Snook’s car and wrongly identified as being connected to that attack.
Tolliver, who had a baseball bat, and the three teenagers armed with machetes, jumped out of the car and chased after the two boys. Within 33 seconds, the attackers had returned to Snook’s Audi Q2 motability car, leaving Max and Mason lying fatally injured on the street.
They were both pronounced dead in hospital in the early hours of January 28.
