Shocking CCTV footage shows teenagers buying fireworks which they later used to kill a grandmother.
Josephine Smith, 88, died of smoke inhalation as a result of a firework being posted through her letterbox by Callum Dunne, then 15, and Kai Cooper, then 18.
The pair went on a rampage through Harold Wood, East London and threw fireworks at drivers and businesses, before posting one through Josephine's front door.
Josephine, who was hard of hearing, remained asleep in her bed at her home in Romford, Essex, and was found dead from smoke inhalation hours later.
The teenagers were convicted of manslaughter and Dunne was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years and eight months in prison, while Cooper was handed five years.
Josephine Smith, 88, died of smoke inhalation as a result of a firework being posted through her letterbox by Callum Dunne, then 15, and Kai Cooper, then 18.
The pair went on a rampage through Harold Wood, East London and threw fireworks at drivers and businesses, before posting one through Josephine's front door.
Josephine, who was hard of hearing, remained asleep in her bed at her home in Romford, Essex, and was found dead from smoke inhalation hours later.
The teenagers were convicted of manslaughter and Dunne was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years and eight months in prison, while Cooper was handed five years.
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00:00Look at these bro, they're getting let off the ground.
00:07These won't go loud and bang.
00:09No, I want something that's going to go bang, quick.
00:12Well this is going to go bang.
00:14The aim is to fire at the police.
00:17What's that?
00:21They're the air bombs, what you're talking about.
00:24You can't hold them.
00:26You can just light it and then just throw it basically.
00:29Throw it, hold it, throw it, do what you like with it.
00:32Do you know how much it is then?
00:342 for 8.99 I think.
00:362 for 8.99, 2 for 11.99.
00:39Bigger one.
00:40They're loud and bang.
00:42I'm going to be in the car park.
00:43Hey, tell Elvis to come in here.
00:47Elvis, come in.
00:49I'm trying to get fireworks, I want to let some other people off.
00:53Hello, welcome.
00:54You're going to get terrorised for that.
00:56Trust me.
00:58These are the good ones to let off at people.
01:00It's not going to do damage to people.
01:02I know it's not going to do damage.
01:04I'm not going to tell you to let off at people.
01:06These are going to fly off and they're going to go bang.
01:09They're going to shoot at you and go bang.
01:11How do you do that?