A young killer has been jailed for life for stabbing to death another teenager who had been turned away from a birthday party.
Thomas Overton, 18, was hunted down by a mob and stabbed through the heart just yards from his home after being snubbed from the event in Leyton with his brother and a group of friends.
Today Judge Charles Wide QC lifted reporting restrictions at the Old Bailey to allow the naming of Tommy's killer as 17-year old Ahmed Ahmed.
Ahmed, from Stratford, must serve a minimum of 15 years before being considered for parole.
Ahmed sat in the dock wearing a grey suit, white shirt and dark tie. He mouthed words to sobbing family members in the public gallery as the sentence was delivered.
A second defendant, Kondwani Phiri, 18, from Forest Gate, was sentenced to three and-a-half years for violent disorder.
Summing up, Judge Charles Wide QC told Ahmed: "The opposing group were running away, as you well knew.
"They were no threat of any kind."
He added: "You ran in and stabbed him."
Phiri was "right at the front of the chasing group" and as Tommy lay fatally injured, Phiri attacked him with a metal bar.
Judge Wide said: "Your victim at that point was someone who was already dying."
The knife had a plastic bag moulded to the handle so it could be "stripped off after use", the judge said.
The judge said there was "an element of swagger" as Ahmed walked away from the scene and ditched the knife.
He said Ahmed wanted to "chase a fleeing group and stab who you could".
Defence counsel called it a few moments of madness on that hot night".
Ahmed has previous convictions for an possession of an offensive weapon and Phiri's include robbery.
