Two teenagers who stabbed a 16-year-old boy, leaving him to bleed to death on a pavement, have been jailed for his murder.

Darrian Williams died after being stabbed in Rawnsley Park in Easton, Bristol, on 14 February.

His killers, who were 15 at the time and are now aged 16, denied his murder but were found guilty by a jury on 1 November.

The pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were both sentenced to 15 years and 76 days at Bristol Crown Court.

Sentencing the two boys, the honourable Mr Justice Saini said while he believed the two had not intended to kill Darrian, they “jointly attacked” him and intended to cause him “serious harm” by stabbing him in his back, front and face.

“You are young. You didn’t plan to kill him. You are immature,” he added.

Being helped to read out her victim impact statement in the witness box by a friend, Darrian’s mother said living without her son had “broken” her and she felt “lost and traumatised”.

“They have taken from me not only my son but my future.”

During the trial, the court was told how after the stabbing, Darrian ran from Rawnsley Park to nearby Stapleton Road, where he desperately knocked on the windows of several cars queuing at traffic lights in an attempt to get someone to take him to hospital.

He was eventually helped by Svetlozar Stanchev, a Bulgarian national who had limited English.

“He dived into my van – he said ‘start driving, I’m dying, I will die’,” said Mr Stanchev.

He tried to find a police station before driving to a supermarket on West Street, Old Market, where he knew staff spoke English.

Shop staff and other members of the public tried to perform first aid before the emergency services arrived.

Despite efforts from paramedics, Darrian died on the pavement before his mother, who was rushing to the scene, could get to him.

Following searches of the park by officers, a sheath was later recovered which contained DNA belonging to both Darrian and one of the defendants.

During the trial, the court was told how moments before the attack, there was believed to be a verbal confrontation, where the Bristol BS postcodes “1-6” and “2s” – linked to gangs in the city – were exchanged.

Members of the gang are believed to wear different coloured bandana’s to show their allegiance.

There was no evidence throughout the trial to suggest Darrian was linked to either group.

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