Teenagers detained for murdering boys in mistaken identity case

Four teenagers have been detained for life for the mistaken murders of best friends Max Dixon and Mason Rist, who were killed in Bristol in a case of mistaken identity. The victims, aged 15 and 16, were stabbed to death with machetes after being wrongly identified as responsible for a previous incident. The defendants, including an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, were sentenced to minimum terms ranging from 15 to 23 years, while a fifth defendant received a life sentence with a minimum of 38 years.

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