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Despite being 17, Judge Sarah Munro KC agreed the boy could be named and ruled that her sentencing remarks on Tuesday could be filmed and broadcast as a "deterrent to others".
Marques Walker has been jailed (Image: MET POLICE)
Marques Walker, 17, can now be named as the killer of Jermaine Cools, a 14-year-old stabbed outside a chicken shop in Croydon, south London, in Novemeber 2021. The unarmed boy became the youngest victim of a fatal knife crime that year when he was stabbed seven times with a machete by Walker, who is from Bromley, Kent, as he lay helpless on the ground.
Walker, who was 16 at the time of the stabbing, became the first youth to be have his sentencing televised in England and Wales after a successful legal challenge by the media to lift reporting restrictions that had prevented his identification.
Outlining her decision to allow proceedings to be filmed, Judge Munro said: "The serious nature and increasing prevalence of knife crime, knife-related homicide and violent crime...; the consequent need for deterrence; the promotion of public confidence that the criminal justice system is addressing the problem; and the proximity of the defendant's 18th birthday... all outweigh any minimal impact upon the welfare of defendant."
Walker, a drill rapper, had a history of carrying deadly weapons and had been on bail for carrying a Zombie knife six weeks before the attack.
The teenager showed a lack of remorse for his actions, as he wrote about the murder in rap lyrics, saying: "Even if that youth was a civillian I would still rewind and chef up (stab) his back."
Sentenced at London's Old Bailey, the 17-year-old had already pleaded guilty to murder earlier this year and possessing a knife. He also admitted causing grievous bodily harm to a fellow inmate while in youth detention after the killing.
Jermaine was only 14 when he was stabbed (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
During the sentencing, Judge Munro described the killing as a "senseless murder."
She said: "This is yet another case of the senseless murder of a young teenager committed for reasons no mature adult could fathom." Jermaine, she added, was stabbed "mercilessly" and he "must have been terrified and in agony".
Chilling CCTV footage shows the moment Walker headed calmly towards Jermaine and drew the large machete from his coat. The court heard the victim was either pushed or fell to the ground before his attacker ran towards him and repeatedly stabbed him in his chest while Jermaine rolled on the ground frantically trying to avoid being stabbed.
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said: "It is clear that Jermaine Cools did not stand a chance. He could offer no resistance. He was unarmed, he was on the floor, and he was totally vulnerable. He was stabbed a total of seven times by Marques Walker in a senseless attack of extreme ferocity."
Jermaine was driven to Mayday Hospital by a member of the public and died there from a wound to the chest that had pierced a lung.
Jermaine was killed in November 2021 (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
While police identified the defendant from the CCTV footage, he escaped them for nearly six weeks by leaving his home and going into hiding, sleeping on his friends' sofas.
On December 27, 2021, he was found hiding behind a bed as officers attended an address to conduct an arrest enquiry for another person, and initially he gave officers a false name. He was arrested for an unrelated matter, but when he gave his real name on the way to the police station, he was further arrested for murder.
The killer had previously been caught carrying three large knives, the court heard.
His repeated possession of knives was mentioned a number of times by the judge as she sentenced Walker.
Jermaine's mother Lorraine Dudek described the failure to deal with Walker's knife-carrying habit as a "missed opportunity".
Jermaine Cools became the youngest victim of a fatal knife crime in the UK in 2021 (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
She said: "Had it been addressed earlier he would not have had the opportunity to go out to kill. Young males get caught with a knife, the knife gets confiscated. Within an hour they get another one from Snapchat or social media.
"Stop and search has its place and it's very, very good for removing weapons but the follow-up has to be there. When Jermaine got stopped and searched I was happy about it. Some parents complain about their children being stopped and searched - that could be the deterrent that stops them."
Ms Dudek added her family had to bear "victim blaming" following the loss of Jermaine, as people struggled to accept a young boy with no gang connection could be "stabbed for no reason". She added: "People don't realise it can just be anyone's child."
The grieving mother also said knife crime was "at the forefront of [Jermaine's] mind" and suggested tackling the issue started at home, saying she had always told her son to never carry a blade.
Her son, she also said, was the "best child ever", and described him as "beautiful" and a "bright light in the world".
She added: "We do not live any more. We just exist. When they took his life, they took ours. We just exist now. We exist in pain."
Referring to Walker, Jermaine's father Julius Cools said: "Your devilish actions that night took Jermaine from us. You stabbed him so many times, if it was one or two wounds maybe Jermaine would have survived but you kept stabbing him."
Jermaine's family also said in a statement: "Jermaine could talk to anybody. He was our best friend and the one who always made our day even when we were down. He would come down and talk to us. When he was taken away it took the life from us all. The night of 18th November 2021 was the first time we as a family returned home without Jermaine. Every day since that point we have ceased living and merely just existed. Our family home used to be filled with love, laughter and happiness. It is now just a sad and empty house filled with suffering.
"Jermaine’s bedroom remains untouched and ready for him to come home just as he was supposed to on the night of 18th November 2021. This will never happen. Jermaine’s bedroom is now a place where we go and sit to be surrounded by his possessions and smell his scent and think about our happy memories of him. Memories is all we have left."
Superintendent Richard Vandenbergh, of Scotland Yard, said: "Jermaine was only 14-years-old when he was stabbed to death, he was a child and we cannot ignore the fact that children are dying on the streets of London as a result of knife crime.
"Jermaine's family have been left devastated, a child with his whole life ahead of him has had it brutally snatched away. Jermaine's family have spoken out about knife crime and I hope that their courage in speaking out may stop another family losing a child to this evil crime. Walker was able to obtain knife after knife. Anyone seeing the pictures of those weapons police seized from him in the months leading up to the killing of Jermaine should be concerned that weapons like this seem so readily available to young men."
https://archive.is/fZTsL
Judge Handing-down Sentence to Marques Walker, Killer of Jermaine Cools; News Bits;Compilation video
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GbkWokNKonqW
Marques Walker has been jailed (Image: MET POLICE)
Marques Walker, 17, can now be named as the killer of Jermaine Cools, a 14-year-old stabbed outside a chicken shop in Croydon, south London, in Novemeber 2021. The unarmed boy became the youngest victim of a fatal knife crime that year when he was stabbed seven times with a machete by Walker, who is from Bromley, Kent, as he lay helpless on the ground.
Walker, who was 16 at the time of the stabbing, became the first youth to be have his sentencing televised in England and Wales after a successful legal challenge by the media to lift reporting restrictions that had prevented his identification.
Outlining her decision to allow proceedings to be filmed, Judge Munro said: "The serious nature and increasing prevalence of knife crime, knife-related homicide and violent crime...; the consequent need for deterrence; the promotion of public confidence that the criminal justice system is addressing the problem; and the proximity of the defendant's 18th birthday... all outweigh any minimal impact upon the welfare of defendant."
Walker, a drill rapper, had a history of carrying deadly weapons and had been on bail for carrying a Zombie knife six weeks before the attack.
The teenager showed a lack of remorse for his actions, as he wrote about the murder in rap lyrics, saying: "Even if that youth was a civillian I would still rewind and chef up (stab) his back."
Sentenced at London's Old Bailey, the 17-year-old had already pleaded guilty to murder earlier this year and possessing a knife. He also admitted causing grievous bodily harm to a fellow inmate while in youth detention after the killing.
Jermaine was only 14 when he was stabbed (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
During the sentencing, Judge Munro described the killing as a "senseless murder."
She said: "This is yet another case of the senseless murder of a young teenager committed for reasons no mature adult could fathom." Jermaine, she added, was stabbed "mercilessly" and he "must have been terrified and in agony".
Chilling CCTV footage shows the moment Walker headed calmly towards Jermaine and drew the large machete from his coat. The court heard the victim was either pushed or fell to the ground before his attacker ran towards him and repeatedly stabbed him in his chest while Jermaine rolled on the ground frantically trying to avoid being stabbed.
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said: "It is clear that Jermaine Cools did not stand a chance. He could offer no resistance. He was unarmed, he was on the floor, and he was totally vulnerable. He was stabbed a total of seven times by Marques Walker in a senseless attack of extreme ferocity."
Jermaine was driven to Mayday Hospital by a member of the public and died there from a wound to the chest that had pierced a lung.
Jermaine was killed in November 2021 (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
While police identified the defendant from the CCTV footage, he escaped them for nearly six weeks by leaving his home and going into hiding, sleeping on his friends' sofas.
On December 27, 2021, he was found hiding behind a bed as officers attended an address to conduct an arrest enquiry for another person, and initially he gave officers a false name. He was arrested for an unrelated matter, but when he gave his real name on the way to the police station, he was further arrested for murder.
The killer had previously been caught carrying three large knives, the court heard.
His repeated possession of knives was mentioned a number of times by the judge as she sentenced Walker.
Jermaine's mother Lorraine Dudek described the failure to deal with Walker's knife-carrying habit as a "missed opportunity".
Jermaine Cools became the youngest victim of a fatal knife crime in the UK in 2021 (Image: PA/MET POLICE)
She said: "Had it been addressed earlier he would not have had the opportunity to go out to kill. Young males get caught with a knife, the knife gets confiscated. Within an hour they get another one from Snapchat or social media.
"Stop and search has its place and it's very, very good for removing weapons but the follow-up has to be there. When Jermaine got stopped and searched I was happy about it. Some parents complain about their children being stopped and searched - that could be the deterrent that stops them."
Ms Dudek added her family had to bear "victim blaming" following the loss of Jermaine, as people struggled to accept a young boy with no gang connection could be "stabbed for no reason". She added: "People don't realise it can just be anyone's child."
The grieving mother also said knife crime was "at the forefront of [Jermaine's] mind" and suggested tackling the issue started at home, saying she had always told her son to never carry a blade.
Her son, she also said, was the "best child ever", and described him as "beautiful" and a "bright light in the world".
She added: "We do not live any more. We just exist. When they took his life, they took ours. We just exist now. We exist in pain."
Referring to Walker, Jermaine's father Julius Cools said: "Your devilish actions that night took Jermaine from us. You stabbed him so many times, if it was one or two wounds maybe Jermaine would have survived but you kept stabbing him."
Jermaine's family also said in a statement: "Jermaine could talk to anybody. He was our best friend and the one who always made our day even when we were down. He would come down and talk to us. When he was taken away it took the life from us all. The night of 18th November 2021 was the first time we as a family returned home without Jermaine. Every day since that point we have ceased living and merely just existed. Our family home used to be filled with love, laughter and happiness. It is now just a sad and empty house filled with suffering.
"Jermaine’s bedroom remains untouched and ready for him to come home just as he was supposed to on the night of 18th November 2021. This will never happen. Jermaine’s bedroom is now a place where we go and sit to be surrounded by his possessions and smell his scent and think about our happy memories of him. Memories is all we have left."
Superintendent Richard Vandenbergh, of Scotland Yard, said: "Jermaine was only 14-years-old when he was stabbed to death, he was a child and we cannot ignore the fact that children are dying on the streets of London as a result of knife crime.
"Jermaine's family have been left devastated, a child with his whole life ahead of him has had it brutally snatched away. Jermaine's family have spoken out about knife crime and I hope that their courage in speaking out may stop another family losing a child to this evil crime. Walker was able to obtain knife after knife. Anyone seeing the pictures of those weapons police seized from him in the months leading up to the killing of Jermaine should be concerned that weapons like this seem so readily available to young men."
https://archive.is/fZTsL
Judge Handing-down Sentence to Marques Walker, Killer of Jermaine Cools; News Bits;Compilation video
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GbkWokNKonqW
