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Teen convicted of Christmas Eve killing
A teenager is facing life in jail for the murder of a young father who was shot dead as he unloaded Christmas presents outside his girlfriend's Shepherd's Bush home.
Nathan Harris, 16, was found guilty today of the murder in Loftus Road on Christmas Eve last year following a six week trial at the Old Bailey.
Harris, of Campbell House in the White City Estate, hastily arranged the killing after he recognised Craig, 20, from a previous fight in which he had bitten off part of the ear of his friend Khalid Elsheikh.
The victim had just returned from a shopping trip with his partner and their five-year-old son when he was hit three times the head, neck and chest by bullets from a handgun.
Harris is believed to have also been questioned over the murder in Hammersmith of Kodjo Yenga, who was stabbed to death in March 2007. Two other teenagers were sentenced to life in prison for his murder in May last year.
Elsheikh, of Adie Road, Hammersmith, was today cleared of Craig's murder, but found guilty of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. He and Harris will be sentenced on Monday.
Adil Saed, 21, of Baird House in the White City Estate, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found not guilty of murder.
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