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Lakeshore Drive, near the Imperial Retail Park in South Bristol, where the attack on the teenager happened and, inset, Leanne Ekland, the mother of Max Dixon(Image: Bristol Post)<\/p>\nOne of the boys who murdered Max Dixon and Mason Rist has been jailed again, but won’t actually serve more timeLakeshore Drive, near the Imperial Retail Park in South Bristol, where the attack on the teenager happened and, inset, Leanne Ekland, the mother of Max Dixon(Image: Bristol Post)<\/p>\n
The mother of a teenager murdered in Bristol last year has slammed a judge for the sentence he handed out to one of the boys who attacked her son.<\/p>\n
Leanne Ekland described the sentence handed down yesterday<\/a> to a 16-year-old boy who murdered her son Max Dixon last year as \u2018an absolute joke\u2019.<\/p>\n The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of a court order, was yesterday sentenced for a separate stabbing he carried out just 22 hours before he took part in the attack on Max and his best friend Mason Rist.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Judge Peter Blair handed down a sentence of four years<\/a> in youth detention to the 16-year-old, and another three years on licence, for that earlier attack. He stabbed a 17-year-old near the Imperial Retail Park in South Bristol, the night before the double murder in Knowle<\/a> West.<\/p>\n But the judge\u2019s decision to have that sentence to run concurrently with the life sentence given to the 16-year-old in December for murdering Max and Mason has sparked fury among the families of both boys.<\/p>\n Back in December the teenager – who was the second youngest of the group of four youths who murdered Max and Mason – was given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 18 years and 44 days before he can ask to be considered for parole.<\/p>\n The decision to have his four-year jail sentence for the earlier attack run concurrently with those 18 years and not consecutively will mean, in practice, the youngster will not serve it at all and will not receive any punishment in real terms.<\/p>\n The extra three years on licence will also be superseded by the life sentence for the double murder, a sentence he will still be the subject to even if released on parole in 18 years.<\/p>\n Max\u2019s mum Leanne Ekland described the decision to allow the sentence to run concurrently as \u2018an absolute joke\u2019, and said it was decisions like that that meant \u2018people want to take matters into their own hands\u2019.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Teenager who murdered Max and Mason stabbed another boy night before fatal attack<\/a>READ MORE: Boy convicted of South Bristol double murder stabbed another teen<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAnother seven years to run alongside his current sentence, for trying to stab someone less than 24 hours before the attack on our boys,\u201d she said. \u201cSo basically, he\u2019s not even been punished for the attack, as it\u2019s not on top of his current punishment.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat an absolute joke, no wonder people want to take matters into their own hands – just another kick while we are all down,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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A general view of the southern end of Lakeshore Drive, near the Imperial Retail Park in South Bristol(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n