Student, 17, is jailed for 16 years for urging her boyfriend to prove his love by killing his ex-girlfriend

A college student who urged her besotted boyfriend to murder his ex-girlfriend during a macabre plot 'to prove himself' was jailed today for 16 years.

Sarah Mohamed, 17, loitered outside the victim's home in Openshaw, Manchester for two hours while she waited for her boyfriend, Rhett Carty-Shaw, also 17, to kill the mother of his child.

She sent more than 50 text messages to encourage him to carry out the brutal attack in May earlier this year including one that read: 'Why you taking so long? Hurry up and do it.'
Yesterday, the pair were both jailed for 16 years.

Mohamed had first plotted the murder after she discovered that her boyfriend was continuing his relationship with the victim, 17-year-old Imam Nasir.

Manchester Crown Court heard during the trial that she had been left on 'incensed' and 'felt humiliated'.

She proceeded to end her relationship with him and said that he had 'let her down' and that she 'cannot trust him'.

But Carty-Shaw was upset about the relationship coming to an end and arranged to meet with Mohamed at lunchtime the day before the attack in an attempt to talk her round.

She applied make-up to her neck to fake strangulation and closed her eyes so that he could take a photo but when she opened her eyes she saw him holding a knife.

Miss Nasir tried to call 999 as well as one of her friend's but he prevented her from doing so.

She instructed him to leave and tried to push him down the stairs and out of the house into the garden which is when Carty-Shaw unleashed extreme violence.

He inflicting numerous blows that left her with wounds to her face, neck and armpit plus three to her back and was lucky to escape with her life.

Carty-Shaw left the scene shortly after and made his way to his Mohamed who was waiting outside.

The pair talked and embraced after returning to Mohamed's home before he left and she returned inside the property.

Carty-Shaw was arrested a short time later while standing at a bus stop close to his co-defendant's address.