TWO people were jailed for life and another for ten years for the murder of High Wycombe man Jourdan Griffiths today.

Mr Griffiths, 20, died from a single stab wound in a High Wycombe squat on June 29 last year.

Lotto Williams, 19, formerly of Whitelands Road, High Wycombe was jailed for life with a minimum sentence of 14 years, minus 348 days already served.

Christopher Joseph, 22, of Grenfell Avenue, High Wycombe was jailed for life with a minimum sentence of 15 years, minus 348 days.

Youth 17-year-old Kieren George, of Spearing Road, Castlefield, High Wycombe, was sentenced ten years plus 37 days.

They were found guilty in April after a four-week trial at Reading Crown Court.

Jourdan's mother today said she was 'disgusted' by their lack of remorse (see link, bottom of story).

The prosecution said the three went to Buckinghamshire House, on White Hart Street to steal drugs and 'do violence'.

Mr Griffiths was stabbed when he opened the door, but the prosecution said they could not prove which of the three defendants used the knife.

The three were found guilty as 'secondary parties' to murder, which meant jurors decided they each knew that a knife would, or could, be used to kill or cause serious injury.

Judge Zoe Smith said at today's sentencing: "The three of you planned and acted together in this attack. It was an unprovoked attack. A knife was used.

"Jourdan Griffiths was unarmed and posed no threat whatsoever.

"The motive for the attack is not known - it maybe that Jourdan Griffiths was not the intended target."

She added there has been "no remorse shown" by any of the defendants. The three did not take the witness stand during the trial.

Prosecutor Christopher Donnellan read out a victim impact statement on behalf of Mr Griffiths mother, Moya.

It read: "I lost absolutley everything in my life when Jourdan was murdered. The impact of seeing him in the morgue and his battered body will be with me forever."

It said she did not look at her son through "rose-tinted glasses adding: "In his teenage years we encountered many problems, including drugs, which we battled for a long time.

"But he was definitely coming through the other side of this journey....he only went to the squat to help out a friend.

"He did not have a bad bone in his body. He hated violence of any nature.

"I do not want retribution because that would be pointless, but I do want the truth."

The court overturned a ban on naming George given the severity of his crime.

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