MIRROR
An evil thug is facing a life sentence after he stabbed a teenage boy to death 23 times over a stolen motorbike.
Dylan Bragger, 15, was brutally murdered by Felipe Diglio Figueiredo in the row in which he confronted the youngster and another man over a dispute involving the bike. The 28-year-old killer, who was convicted of murder by a jury on Wednesday, had been seen on CCTV leaving his home in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on the evening of June 29 last year.
He had just received a text claiming his motorbike which had been stolen the previous evening had been seen on the housing estate he was living on. Moments later, he subjected Dylan to the horrific attack, stabbing him multiple times in the head, chest, back, abdomen and arms.
He then went home, calling the police at 9.30pm to hand himself in. Armed officers stormed Figueiredo’s home arresting him for murder.
He later denied murder at trial, claiming he stabbed Dylan “a few times” out of self-defence. But a jury at Preston Crown Court failed to believe his lies, finding him guilty after hearing distressing evidence about the sheer volume of Dylan’s injuries.
Detectives described the crime as a “heartbreaking tale of events” in which a young life was “abruptly snatched away”. Detective Chief Inspector Andy Fallows, of Lancashire Police, said: “This is an utterly tragic case in which a 15-year-old boy with his whole life ahead of him has had that abruptly snatched away.
