Melvin Bryan was stabbed in the neck and chest

Two drug dealers who murdered a teenager over a £10 debt have been jailed for life for murder.

Melvin Bryan, 18, was found in a bedsit in north London, in July, with knife wounds to his neck and chest.

The teenager, from Peckham, south-east London, was attacked for refusing to pay £10 for a rock of crack cocaine.

O'Jay Rodgers, 23, of no fixed address, and Damion Sealey, 28, of Green Lanes, north London, were given minimum terms of 22 and 20 years respectively.

The attack happened a house in Gloucester Road, Edmonton.

O'Jay Rodgers and Damion Sealey killed over £10 worth of crack

At the Old Bailey, Judge Timothy Pontius said: "He was a terrified young man desperate to escape.

"Sealey, you watched as Rodgers used a knife on Melvin Bryan, encouraging that remorseless attack. It was clearly your intention that Rodgers should continue until he was dead... all for £10."

Rodgers was on bail at the time of the killing for possessing crack.

Both men had been deported from America for breaking the law and "set about earning a dishonest and unscrupulous living here" said the judge.



