Justice at last for Jay

Jay Kensett was just a normal teenager, keen on soccer and boxing.

But the 16-year-old was stabbed to death in the street last year causing heartbreak for his family and grief throughout the whole Whitehawk estate.

Now after Darren Mateer has been found guilty by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment by a judge, justice has been done.

The only pity is that the obvious verdict and sentence took so long in coming because of Mateer's insistence on pleading not guilty, even though he had given himself up to police.

Jay's tragic story is one of a wasted young life. It was made even worse for his family because of the sad deaths of two cousins last year in a car crash.

Nothing can be done to bring Jay back to life and our thoughts go out today to his family.

But if there is one good thing to have emerged from this sad story, it is the way in which the often-

criticised Whitehawk community has rallied round to help.

Sporting chance

Going to see Albion play at home or visiting the Bowlplex in Brighton might not seem much like school work.

But youngsters in the East Brighton Education Action Zone will be writing match reports in the football press box and seeing how the ten-pin bowling scores are totted up.

It's all aimed at getting kids to see that being able to read, write and use figures properly is a useful part of the real world.

And for most of them it will also show that learning can be fun.

Logged on for life

Jenny and Arthur Rusdell-Wilson fell in love on an Internet chat channel.

They logged on in 1996, met face to face in 1997 and married the following year.

The couple are featured in the Argus today among several people who've had their lives changed by the worldwide web.

For them and for millions of others, going on-line has proved to be a net gain.

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