BABY-FACED KILLER
Jodie Chesney’s killer, 17, unmasked by judge as dramatic police bodycam footage shows arrests
THIS is the baby-faced killer who helped knife Jodie Chesney to death in a senseless "turf war" murder.
Aaron Isaacs, 17, can be pictured for the first time today after a judge lifted an order to name the teenage killer as dramatic bodycam footage showed his arrest.
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Girl Scout Jodie, 17, died in her boyfriend's arms after ending up the "blameless" victim in a petty turf war in Romford, East London, on March 1.
Isaacs was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 18 years, while fellow drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, was jailed for a minimum of 26 years.
Judge Wendy Joseph QC said Jodie had "screamed until she could scream no more" after being stabbed in the back.
Sentencing the pair this afternoon, the judge said they "prepared to attack" Jodie in "callous and casual violence".
She said Jodie was stabbed in a "tit-for-tat" attack which are becoming more ferocious in lawless London.
Jodie's dad Peter Chesney today said "very few words" could describe the pain of losing his daughter.
In a victim impact statement, he said: "I have lost the most precious human being I will ever know. I have no idea how I am going to come to terms with the loss, I guess only time will tell."
As the sentence was read out, the brother of Isaacs appeared to salute the 17-year-old as they walked out of the public gallery.
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Co-defendants Manual Petrovic, 20, and a 16-year-old boy were cleared of murder after the jury deliberated for six hours.
Popular Jodie had been relaxing with friends in Amy's Park in Harold Hill, east London, on the evening of March 1 when two shadowy figures emerged from the dark and one knifed her in the back.
She screamed and collapsed in the arms of her boyfriend, Eddie Coyle, 18, as her attackers made off in a fellow drug dealer's car.
Days later, they were arrested together as they fled from the rear of a house connected with the youth.
The defendants denied Jodie's murder, each blaming the other for inflicting the fatal wound.
But prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told jurors that both were responsible for the killing, amid incidents of "casual violence" in the drug-dealing world.
The judge today found Ong-a-Kwie was the stabber and 17-year-old Isaacs his "enthusiastic supporter".
The "pathetic" drugs turf war was over £20 "Pineapple Express" cannabis.
TRAGIC TOLL
Crispin Aylett QC today read out boyfriend Eddie's victim impact statement which revealed he suffered PTSD after the attack.
He added: "I get anxious when I’m outside after dark. Even if it’s just to go outside my front door to have a cigarette I don’t like to do this, so have to stay inside with the window open.
"I don’t go out at all very much anymore, I used to go out all the time, but the only place I go now is to the house of one of my friends.If I’m walking alone in the street and someone is behind me it puts me on edge."
And he paid tribute to his girlfriend, saying: "Jodie was funny, silly, she always made fun of me and she had a bright future ahead of her.
"She was full of energy and was always out doing something.We had been going out for three months. I’ve never lost anyone before and for the first funeral I’ve gone to, to be my own girlfriend’s is incredibly hard. I loved her."
She gave me a type of love I will never feel again
Lucy
Jodie's sister Lucy Chesney also told in a statement that losing Jodie was "like losing half of myself".
She said: "We went through everything together and she was always there for me and always putting everyone before herself. She gave me a type of love I will never feel again."
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She added: "Jodie will be greatly missed and the people who caused such tragedy to a whole family should hang their head in shame. You have ripped away a bright future that was destined to make a change to many lives."
Tragically, Jodie's dad Peter, 39, found out about his daughter's death over police radio.
Cops had collected him from a pub where he had been celebrating his birthday, not knowing she had been knifed.
In a police van racing to hospital, Peter collapsed to his knees when he heard an officer’s radio crackle to life and an operator say: “Jodie’s gone.”
He and his wife split after the anguish of their daughter's death.
Speaking outside of court today, Jodie's uncle Terry praised the police, saying: "She will never be back but this was some justice."
A keen Scout leader and self-taught pianist, Jodie was just three weeks from completing her gold Duke of Edinburgh award.
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Detective Chief Inspector Dave Whellams today said Jodie "was not in the wrong place at the wrong time, she was simply living her life as a teenager should - carefree and with her friends",
Meanwhile, Detective Chief Superintendent Stephen Clayman, added: "It has almost been nine months since Jodie was killed in Harold Hill, and nothing could ever have justified the extinguishing of her young life.
"Havering, like many boroughs across London, has experienced the tragic and inexcusable loss of young life as a result of knife-related violence."
Family release heartbreaking video show at Jodie Chesney's funeral
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CCTV of Jodie Chesney walking with friends to the London park where she was murdered