How the murder of 16-year-old Jonathan Matondo - gunned down in a city park - shocked Sheffield.<br /><br />Jonathan Matondo came to Sheffield as a young boy for a better life – to escape a civil war in his home country.<br /><br />But ironically, just a few years later, the youngster from the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed in what is believed to have been a feud between two rival postcode gangs. He was assassinated in what should have been his safe haven: a city hailed as one of the safest in the country.<br /><br />Jonathan had said goodbye to his mum on that fateful night when she went to church, and she thought her beloved son was meeting up with a group of friends.<br /><br />But despite the teenager’s family believing that he had wanted to become a church preacher, he was leading a secret life they knew nothing about. He was a gang member and was known to have carried a gun and a blade. He was known as Venemous.<br /><br />Although nobody is behind bars for Jonathan’s murder, detectives revealed what they believed happened to him when they charged a suspect soon after the killing and he was prosecuted.<br /><br />He stood trial twice, with the jury unable to reach a verdict after the first trial and finding him not guilty after a second.
