'Incompetent' hitmen kill schoolboy in Britain

February 02, 2013 00:58

Two British hitmen who stabbed to death an innocent schoolboy by mistake in what the prosecution described as an act of 'staggering incompetence' were found guilty of murder today.

Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were both heroin addicts who were paid USD 1,600 each to murder a middle-aged family man who owed money to a shady businessman in the Welsh capital Cardiff.

But the pair -- high on drugs and wearing balaclavas -- went to the wrong house and murdered Aamir Siddiqi by mistake. The 17-year-old was brutally hacked down on the doorstep of his home, and when his desperate parents tried to save him, they were also attacked.

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