Woodhams killer jailed for life

Bradley Tucker, 18, was told at the Old Bailey that he would have to serve a minimum of 25 years.

Tucker, of Butchers Road, Canning Town, east London, was found guilty of Mr Woodhams' murder in March.

The 22-year-old was shot outside his east London home in August last year following a campaign of intimidation by a group of local youths.

The judge, Recorder of London Peter Beaumont, told Tucker he did not believe he had been provoked to kill Mr Woodhams and that he could not find any mitigating factors.

He said: "You were not provoked in any legal or real sense to do what you did. You perceived disrespect. You feared loss of face in a challenge that you perceived from the man you killed - a challenge to the standing you felt you had in the eyes of the people whose respect you sought.

"To meet that challenge, you acquired a gun, you followed a man to his home in broad daylight and, in front of his home, you shot him repeatedly."

The judge also told Tucker, who had turned 18 two-and-a-half months before the murder, that he did not regard his age as a mitigating factor.

He will have the 221 days he has already spent on remand deducted from the 25 years minimum he must serve, at which point it will be decided whether he is fit for release.

He did not react when the judge passed sentence but as he was led from the dock family members shouted from the public gallery "Love you, Bradley".