Four teenagers who murdered two boys in Bristol in a case of mistaken identity have been detained for life.

Riley Tolliver, 18, a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy, and getaway driver Antony Snook, 45, were convicted of the murders of Mason Rist, 15, and 16-year-old Max Dixon in November.

A 15-year-old boy was also found guilty of the murder of Max after previously pleading guilty to the murder of Mason.

Tolliver was jailed for life at Bristol Crown Court today and will serve at least 23 years and 47 days.

The judge also handed the 17-year-old – Kodishai Wescott, who was named for the first time in court – a life sentence, with a minimum term of 23 years and 44 days.

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The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was detained for life, and will serve at least 18 years and 44 days.

The 15-year-old, who also cannot be named, was handed a life sentence, too. He will serve a minimum term of 15 years and 229 days.

Mrs Justice May told the 15-year-old and 16-year-old youths as she sentenced them: “The boys you killed were Mason Rist and Max Dixon. They were your age. They had done nothing wrong.

“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.”

Earlier, Chloe Rist, Mason’s sister, brought his ashes into court and held them as she read a victim impact statement to his killers before they were sentenced.

At the end of her statement, she told them: “This is Mason’s ashes and this is what you’ve done. If anyone is upset about me bringing them to court today, that is all I have left of him.

“I shouldn’t have to look at my brother’s bone fragments either. I also have a piece of his hair which has his blood on it, if you want to see it?

“This is my dead brother’s handprint. Another thing you’ve done. I should be able to hold my brother’s hand, not look at it on a piece of paper. This is all I have left of him.”

As Ms Rist showed the defendants the items they remained expressionless in the dock.

Snook, who acted as a getaway driver for the killers, was jailed for 38 years last month.

During the trial, Bristol Crown Court heard how the group wrongly believed their victims, who had gone out to get pizza, were behind an attack on a house with bricks in the Hartcliffe area of the city earlier in the evening of Saturday 27 January.

Max and Mason were chased and attacked with weapons, including machetes, a bat, and a sword.

The boys suffered “instant severe blood loss” after being stabbed and died of their wounds later that night in the Knowle West area.

The 33-second attack on the two boys was captured by a CCTV camera on Mason’s house.

The court heard the victims “had absolutely nothing to do with any earlier incident”.

On Tuesday Jamie Ogbourne, 27, and Bailey Wescott, 23, were each sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to five years and three months in jail for helping the teenagers after they committed the murders.

The court heard how the pair helped clean weapons used in the fatal attack, with Wescott lighting a fire to dispose of items and Ogbourne arranging taxis and a change of clothing for two of the teenage murderers.

The mother of a murdered teenager says the child killers responsible have “taken my heart” and don’t “understand the impact” of what they’ve done.

Max Dixon, 16, and Mason Rist, 15, were stabbed to death by a group of teenage boys in a case of mistaken identity in Bristol in January.

Those responsible – now aged 15, 16 and 17 – along with 18-year-old Riley Tolliver – were given life sentences at Bristol Crown Court today.

In November, their getaway driver, Anthony Snook, 45, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 38 years.

Max’s mother, Leanne Ekland, has spoken of the panic she went through when she found out her son was dying on a nearby street.

“Me and my partner Trevor, we were up in bed,” she told Sky News, describing the night of the murders. “Max was at home, in his bedroom on his PlayStation and we didn’t think anything of it.

“Next minute a car pulled up outside my house and was shouting at my window – ‘Max has been stabbed’ – and I said: ‘No he’s not, he’s in bed’.”

Leanne rushed to Ilminster Avenue in the Knowle West area of the city and was allowed by paramedics to sit with her son.

“It was just such a panic, I don’t know what I was thinking, I was sat down on the floor and the paramedics were cutting his clothes,” she said.

Max had met his friend Mason at his home on the Saturday evening to get pizza – but within seconds of leaving were attacked by a group armed with machetes.

The gang were seeking revenge for an attack with bricks on a house in Hartcliffe in Bristol an hour earlier – but both boys had nothing to do with it.

‘They didn’t do anything wrong’

The gang’s deadly attack was caught on Mason’s home CCTV.

Leanne said: “When I see Max and Mason on the CCTV, when I see them meet up with each other, I just look at him and I can see him smiling.

“And what’s sad is those boys don’t know what’s going to happen to them when they walk out that gate.

“They must have been petrified. They were just going to get some food.

“They’ve done nothing wrong.”

Leanne added: “I had no idea why they were targeted. Then obviously when I was told, that’s hard. That’s hard to comprehend.

“Because there’s no reason for Max and Mason not to be here today. They didn’t do anything wrong… but sadly they lost their lives.”

Her child’s murderers, Leanne said, have “taken my heart”.

She added: “I love my girls deeply but they’ve also taken my son. I now need to repair my life without him.

“Everyone says it will get better but I don’t think it will. Because he was a massive part of my family and I don’t want to move on.

“He was the glue of our family and to think I’ve got to move on without him is hard. They need to understand that – they destroyed me.”

‘Trial was hardest thing I’ve ever had to do’

Leanne attended much of the trial at Bristol Crown Court, which showed CCTV footage of the attack.

She said no family should have to go through that sort of process.

“It was very difficult to listen to,” she said. “But as Max’s mum I wanted to hear everything, and I wanted to have questions answered and I wanted to know what my boy went through in the last minutes of his life.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. But it’s the only thing I can do for Max… to sit through it and know what he went through.”

All five defendants were found guilty of murder and Leanne said that “allowed me to breathe”.

She added: “When that guilty verdict came back I could actually breathe a little bit because someone was held accountable for those deaths. And it just felt like a weight off my shoulders.”

‘A lot of parents know what children are up to’

Leanne has worked with her son’s local football club to introduce emergency bleed control kits and has spoken to pupils about the risks of violence and carrying knives at Max’s school.

She said there needs to be more education about knife crime, and children should be taught about the “ripple effect” after using a weapon.

Leanne added: “I think it starts at home. With the parents. Because I think there’s a lot of parents out there that know what their children are up to.

“They know what they’re carrying. And I think obviously it starts at home, before we go anywhere else.”

Asked what she has held close to her since her son’s death, she replied: “Everything. I still have a plate and cup in Max’s bedroom which I will not take out as that’s what he used that night.

“Everything around me, that belongs to Max, is precious and I won’t get rid of that.”

A man accused of murdering a racing commentator’s wife and two daughters has been further charged with rape.

Kyle Clifford, 26, was previously accused of fatally shooting Louise and Hannah Hunt with a crossbow and stabbing Carol Hunt, the wife of John Hunt, to death at their home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 9 July.

Clifford pleaded not guilty to the three murders today.

He is also charged with two counts of possession of an offensive weapon – one a 10-inch butcher’s knife and the other a compound crossbow.

Clifford, of Enfield, north London, also faces a charge of false imprisonment.

He was further charged with rape at a plea hearing at Cambridge Crown Court this afternoon.

The defendant, who appeared via video link from HMP Belmarsh, entered not guilty pleas to all charges except the new count of rape, for which he is not yet required to enter a plea.

A memorial service was held in Bushey for Mrs Hunt and her daughters Louise and Hannah a few days after their deaths, with friends saying they were “together in grief”.

Mr Hunt, a Sky Sports and BBC racing commentator, said the devastation he and his surviving daughter Amy feel “cannot be put into words”.

Colleagues of Hannah Hunt paid tribute to the “fantastic therapist”, while a friend of Louise Hunt described her as “one of the loveliest girls” who “always had a smile and was very positive and hardworking”.