Article 6FYNP Families of victims of UK’s notorious ‘Burger Bar Boys’ killers targeted 20 years on

Families of victims of UK’s notorious ‘Burger Bar Boys’ killers targeted 20 years on

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Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor
from World news | The Guardian on (#6FYNP)

Campaign of intimidation began after the Birmingham gang were jailed for new year's shooting of two teenage girls

It remains one of the UK's most shocking gangland killings. In the early hours of 2 January 2003, best friends Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, were gunned down as they stood outside a new year party in Aston, Birmingham.

Mistakenly killed in an escalating feud between rival inner-city factions the Burger Bar Boys and the Johnson Crew, their double murder propelled both gangs to national notoriety.

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