"It is the prosecution case that the defendant, Sean Mercer, was the person who fired that fatal shot and that he is, therefore, guilty of the offence of murder".
"Although this will not help those already convicted, perhaps this is now the time for parliament to give consideration to whether the offence of murder should now be divided into first and second degree murder".
A Public Prosecution Service (PPS) spokesperson said: "Following a careful consideration of all the available evidence, it has been decided to prosecute two men for the offence of murder.
He sentenced him for each of the two offences of murder to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
But the right to use it as a defence remained – except for offences of murder and treason – and it is still valid today, though there have been only a handful of cases.
The MPA defines "knife crime" as follows: All offences of murder, attempted murder, threats to kill, manslaughter, infanticide, wounding or carrying out an act endangering life, GBH without intent, ABH and other injury, sexual assault, rape, robbery where a knife or sharp instrument (defined as any instrument that can pierce the skin) has been used.
Each boy is charged with an offence of attempted murder for each victim and each boy is also charged with an offence of robbery against each victim".
The government has rejected growing calls for a major overhaul of the law on homicide, including the creation of a US-style offence of first-degree murder, saying it would create a "murder-lite" category for most killings.
Detained in Belmarsh prison since May 2004, he was charged five months later with 15 offences of inciting murder, stirring up racial hatred and possessing a terrorist document, a ten-volume "Encyclopedia of Afghani Jihad".
Both men were sentenced to death in 2009 after being found guilty of an unrelated offence of espionage and murder, although they maintained their innocence.
In a different courtroom a week before, Inglis was found guilty of murder, an offence which carries a mandatory life sentence.
