Voice singer ‘ecstatic’ as five teens who knifed father of her son are jailed

A singer who appeared on TV talent show The Voice said she was “ecstatic” after the teenagers who killed the father of her young son were jailed.

Daniel Frederick, 34, died after being stabbed seven times when he was ambushed by five youths near his home in Stoke Newington on January 8.

Mr Frederick, who had no gang ties, had just returned from a hospital appointment with his pregnant partner and was waiting for a friend when he was jumped from behind.

His ex-partner Keisha Rodney, whose son Carter was one at the time, said after the sentencing this week that she was “ecstatic about the result we’ve had today”. She was on a pre-recorded episode of The Voice after the killing and is now an anti-violence campaigner.

Ms Rodney said: “Daniel’s murder was a senseless and abhorrent crime that has rendered his children fatherless.”

The Old Bailey trial heard that the killers had targeted Mr Frederick in a case of mistaken identity after travelling to the Shakespeare estate on a “mission to do violence”. One of the group, aged 16, might have been seeking revenge after a friend was attacked in jail by the “Shakespeare Boys”, the court heard.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, Mr Frederick’s sister Louise Samuel said: “Daily my heart skips a beat thinking about the different knives that were violently thrust into my brother’s back and I imagine him falling to the ground, alone feeling helpless.”

She said her brother never got to meet his fourth child, “a little boy who was born after Daniel was killed”.

Kacper Karasinski, 19, of Hackney, and a 17-year-old boy were found guilty of murder. Karasinski was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years; the youth was detained for at least 17 years. Yigiter Gok, 18, of Stoke Newington, was sentenced to nine years and another 17-year-old boy to eight years after they were both found guilty of manslaughter. The 16-year-old pleaded guilty to murder and was detained for life with a minimum term of 10 years.