The inside story of an inexplicable crime
Nov 2 · 1 min read
“On the day they killed him, Sofyen Belamouadden got up at seven and went into his mother’s bedroom to get his socks from a drawer the family shared. “Mum, I’m going now,” he said, before catching the bus. Sofyen, who was 15, lived with his brother and two sisters in Acton, west London, and went to Henry Compton School in Fulham, a trip that involved two bus rides.”
Story in The Independent Magazine, Saturday 25 April 2015.


