THREE teenagers were sentenced to a total of 37 years' imprisonment for the killing of a rapper over a row about a stolen bike.

Myron Yarde, of New Cross, was a student at Big Creative Academy in Blackhorse Lane in Walthamstow before he was stabbed in April last year.

The 17-year-old was cornered by three teenagers in Camlin Street, New Cross, on April 3 and stabbed five times in the leg with two knives.

Myron and his friends had been involved in a dispute over his stolen bike earlier that day and the attack was a culmination of hostilities between the two groups.

The rapper, who went by the name MDot, suffered four wounds to his left thigh and one wound in his right thing which passed into his femoral artery and vein causing massive internal bleeding.

After staggering a few yards down the road he collapsed and despite the early assistance of paramedics, Myron was pronounced dead at King's College Hospital.

His three killers appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday January 13.

Fauz Richards, 19, of Belvoir Close in Mottingham was jailed for 13 years.

Junior Lukelo-Mami and Lucas Risch, both 16, were jailed for 12 years each. Risch's sentence for perverting the course of justice was included in his sentence for manslaughter.

Jamie Kennedy, 31, and Charlotte Edmonds, 32, both of Daubeney Tower in Deptford were each jailed for two years and three months for perverting the course of justice after conspiring with Risch to remove, hide or dispose of a knife.

All five had been convicted at the same court on December 7 2016.

Lukelo-Mami was arrested on April 7 2016 after he was identified by a witness. Risch and Richards were arrested after handing themselves in at Lewisham Police Station later in April.

Edmonds and Kennedy were witnessed asking for help in disposing of a knife used in the attack and were arrested on April 14.

Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca Reeves, who led the investigation, said: "A young man's life has been lost, leaving his family absolutely distraught.

“Those responsible, also teenagers, now face significant prison sentences.

"Without the presence of knives at this incident, this attack and its terrible consequences for family, friends, brave witnesses who gave evidence, and the whole community, could have been avoided."