Brent Cross stabbing: Teenager appears in court charged with murder

Bhoniefas Rexson, 18, allegedly killed Gedeon Ngwendema outside a JD Sports store at the north London centre on the evening of May 4

Author: Helen HoddinottPublished 11th May 2021

A teenager has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of stabbing a young man to death at Brent Cross Shopping Centre.

Bhoniefas Rexson, 18, allegedly killed Gedeon Ngwendema outside a JD Sports store at the north London centre on the evening of May 4.

Mr Ngwendema, 21, was stabbed in the chest just after 6.40pm.

Two off-duty doctors who happened to be in the area went to his aid but he died at the scene.

Rexson, of Kingsbury, north-west London, was charged with murder and possession of a blade in public.

On Tuesday, he appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from Wormwood Scrubs.

Judge Angela Rafferty QC set a plea hearing for August 2 and remanded the defendant into custody.

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