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Feel our loss, family tells footballer's murderer
Rashid Razaq and Danny Brierley27.02.09
THE family of a murdered teenager today told how they wanted the killer to see how he had destroyed their lives.
Richard Harrison-Allen, 20, known as Scarface within his "Stamford Hill Man Dem Gang" shot 17-year-old Etem Celebi dead in Stoke Newington and was jailed yesterday for at least 26 years.
Etem was a promising footballer who was in the reserves for League Two side Dagenham and Redbridge and had dreams of playing for Arsenal. The childhood friend of X Factor winner Leona Lewis was also planning to read law at university.
Etem's 22-year-old brother said: "I would like [Harrison-Allen] to see what he has done: before people like him pull the trigger, they should see how it affects the families of the people they kill." He added that his parents had had to move to escape painful memories.
Sentencing Harrison-Allen at Luton crown court, Judge Phillip Clegg said: "You will never understand the utter devastation you have caused."
