A TEENAGER nicknamed ”The Devil” has been locked up for life after he stabbed an innocent man to death during a Rambo-like knife rampage.
Noel Reade, 17, was named and shamed after he used a fearsome Rambo hunting knife to kill Keagan Crimes, 27, who was ”in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Reade, then just 16, stalked the streets of Winsford, Cheshire, looking to ”stab everyone in his sight” in October 2020 after going out to find two men he and pals believed were trying to muscle in on their drug dealing.
During a confrontation outside a convenience store he knifed the former army cadet Mr Crimes in the chest penetrating his heart, causing him to lose 33 pints of blood.
He also stabbed and seriously wounded another man who tried to intervene.
Later Reade, who filtered a selfie to make it look as if he had Devil horns, posted a sarcastic ”RIP Keagan” on Facebook.
At Chester Crown Court, Reade, from Crewe, made gang hand gestures and blew kisses to friends in the public gallery as he was ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years.
He was convicted of murder at an earlier hearing but denied the charge with his lawyer claiming he was a ”little boy lost.”
Sentencing, Judge Stephen Everett, told Reade: ”You are one of the most dangerous 17-year-olds I’ve ever come across in my 40 years as a solicitor, barrister and judge.
“Even at a young age you are a vicious thug who wants to lead others and use violence.
“You were clearly setting yourself up to be a ringleader, nothing more or less, in the drugs supply in Winsford.
“You wanted to be the boss and for you severe violence had become a normal way of life. “Everybody else came a very poor second.
”You’re a young thug and that is evidenced by the destruction you have caused over the last few years. I don’t want to hear any more about you being a little boy lost, because you are definitely not.”
One witness told the trial: “He was trying to stab everyone in his sight.”
