Slain boy's mum says capital lost

THE grieving mum of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death with machetes on a bus said authorities have "lost control of London", as his teenage killers were jailed for life.

- By Emily Pennink

Marie Bokassa, whose son Kelyan was slain in front of passengers on a bus in Woolwich, southeast London in January, said "knife crime is not just statistics" but "caskets" and "flowers".