The mother of a murdered teenager has made a heart-felt appeal for information about her son’s killers on the sixth anniversary of his death.

Fabian Ricketts, 18, from Caithness Road, Mitcham, was shot in the heart outside the Battersea Bar, in York Road, on April 18, 2006, after inadvertently becoming embroiled in a gang dispute.

After laying flowers at the exact spot where her son was shot on Easter Monday 2006, his mother Yvonne Ricketts, accompanied by son Leon, 30, pleaded to the community to help find his killers.

Ms Ricketts said: "Fabian was murdered six years ago and we still don’t have closure.

"I’m hoping the publicity will make people remember what happened.

"The kids involved were so young so I’m hoping, because they are older now, they may want to clear their conscience.

“Their silence means I can’t lay my son to rest completely.

“Fabian had never been arrested and was not in a gang.

“I feel that the police have not handled the investigation properly.”

After a lengthy police investigation in 2006 three men, Jordan Burree, Terry Clarke, and Christian Vasquez, were charged with the teenager’s murder.

But following an Old Bailey trial, the trio were cleared of any wrongdoing, after Judge Andrew Morris ruled there was insufficient evidence against them for a jury to safely convict.

In December last year, one of the men, Burree, now 24, was jailed for 33 years after being convicted of murdering a man with a sub-machine gun outside Stockwell station in 2010.

Mr Clarke was cleared of murdering Steven Bates in Tennyson Street, Battersea, on Valentine’s Day 2008, following another Old Bailey trial.

Anyone with information about the 2006 shooting is asked to call 020 8247 4553, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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