Teens jailed for hacking Mason Rist and Max Dixon to death after hunting them 'like five-a-side team'
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A gang of bloodthirsty teens who hacked two boys to death as they went for pizza in a case of mistaken identity were today jailed for a total of 79 years. Max Dixon, 16, had gone out to get food with friend Mason Rist, 15, when the gang - fuelled by "bloodlust" and armed with machetes, zombie knives and a baseball bat - pounced. The killers had wrongly identified them as the culprits of an earlier attack as part of a postcode "rivalry" and had “tooled up” with an arsenal of “fearsome weapons”.
Today Max and Mason's family delivered heart-wrenching victim impact statements at Bristol Crown Court and told of watching their lives ebb away. Riley Tolliver, 18, was jailed for a minimum term of 23 years while Kodishai Wescott, 17, was also jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years to be served.
Two boys aged 15 and 16, who also cannot be named, were also handed life sentences with minimum terms of 15 and 18 years respectively. Mrs Justice May told the two unnamed minors: “You were part of a group who attacked and killed two boys,” the judge told the defendants, who cannot be named for legal reasons. The boys you killed were Mason Rist and Max Dixon. They were your age. They had done nothing wrong.
"They didn’t attack the house, they had nothing to do with it. You have heard how much pain you have caused to their families. Max and Mason’s families must go on without them in a different way. Your lives will change too. As Mason’s sister said, there are no winners here.”.
