Killer of Thavisha Peiris was knife robber on bail
One of the killers of pizza delivery driver Thavisha Peiris was a convicted knife robber on bail, a court has heart.
Judge: Murder was 'waiting to happen'
Two men have been sentenced today for the killing of Sri Lankan student Thavisha Peiris.
Mr Peiris was finishing his last shift as a pizza delivery driver before starting a dream job when he was stabbed to death.
Kasim Ahmed was jailed for twenty-three years, while Shamraze Khan will serve a minimum of twenty-four.
Passing sentence Mr Justice Coulson said of Ahmed: "You are a dangerous man...you brutally killed a person carrying out a kind of public service."
He said he had a truly terrible record for someone so young and said: "This was a murder that was waiting to happen in light of your criminal record."
He said had Ahmed been eighteen rather than seventeen at the time of the killing the starting point of the sentence would have been a minimum of thirty years.
The court heard a statement from Thavisha Peiris' family in which his father said: "We have lost the most caring and loving son a parent could have...we are now left with nothing but a broken heart."
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said the murder had left Mr Peiris' family devastated:
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