Three of the five people that murdered Max Dixon and Mason Rist in South Bristol have now been named and pictured. Each member of the gang have been given life sentences for their part in the horrific double murder in January.
Antony Snook, 45, drove Riley Tolliver, 18, Kodi Wescott, 17, and two other teenagers, who cannot be named because of their age, to the murder scene in Knowle West before taking them back to Hartcliffe. Snook was jailed at an earlier hearing for life with a minimum term of 38 years.
Wescott, who was 16 at the time of the murders, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years and 44 days at Bristol Crown Court today, Thursday, December 19. The court heard how his home was attacked an hour before the gang wrongly identified Max and Mason as the offenders.
Meanwhile, Riley Tolliver was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 23 years and 47 days. He attacked Max and Mason with a baseball bat during the bloodthirsty ambush.
The 15-year-old who had pleaded guilty to stabbing Mason at the start of the month-long trial was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years and 229 days. And a 16-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years and 44 days.
Bristol Crown Court heard how Kodi Wescott's family home was attacked in Hartcliffe by three masked teenagers. They broke windows in the house and injured his mum.
This triggered the gang to head into Knowle West on what was described in court as a ‘revenge mission’. Max Dixon and Mason Rist had nothing to do with the attack, but were stabbed in a horrific attack outside Mason’s home in Ilminster Avenue as the four teenagers stopped and attacked the first young people they saw on the streets in Knowle West that night.
Kodi’s older brother Bailey Wescott, 23, was jailed on Tuesday for two counts of assisting an offender, having burned clothes worn by Kodi and another attacker in the garden of the Hartcliffe home. His friend Jamie Ogbourne, 27, was also jailed for helping to hide Kodi and another of the attackers at his home. The pair were given sentences of five years and three months on Tuesday.
