“YOU have deprived a child of his father, a woman of her partner and a mother of her son.”

That was Judge Anthony King’s damning verdict on Eze Eke as he jailed the teenager for 15 years yesterday.

Eke murdered Blayne Ridgway by stabbing him twice through the heart.

The 16-year-old attacked the father-of-one outside the Que Pasa bar in Queen Street, Oxford, in the early hours of May 8.

At Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Judge King agreed to a request by the Oxford Mail to identify the killer after he was unanimously convicted by a jury.

The teenager fatally stabbed Mr Ridgway at about 3.05am before fleeing down Castle Street and through Oxford Castle.

Eke, of Ridgefield Road, East Oxford, was arrested two hours later when he went to St Aldate’s police station and told duty officer Derek Devine: “I’ve been involved in a fight in town.”

Cries of “yes!” from Mr Ridgway’s friends and family greeted the jury’s verdict in a packed court.

Eke, who turns 17 in two weeks, remained calm and showed little emotion.

Matthew Walsh, prosecuting, said it was not definitively known what sparked the argument between Mr Ridgway and his killer, although the jury had been told about an argument over a silver chain.

Nicholas Rhodes, defending, said his client is “someone who has difficulty maintaining his self-control in situations where he believes he’s either being treated unfairly or without respect.

“On the face of it he has a lack of victim empathy as the court will find by his maintaining a plea of not guilty.”

Mr Rhodes said Eke’s siblings are at university and he comes from a “decent family”, but said the teenager was not helped by leaving school early and “struggled to find a role for himself” at home.

Judge Anthony King passed a sentence without a fixed detention period, but ordered Eke must serve at least 15 years before he is eligible for release. He said this period would have been 25 years had he been over 18.

He said: “You stabbed him twice through the heart. These were, in my judgement, aimed blows which you must have known were going to penetrate a vital organ, as they did, and in my judgement it was your intention to kill him.

“By your act you have deprived a child of his father, a woman of her partner and a mother of her son.”

In a statement, the victim’s mother, Julie Ridgway, told of hearing her son had died. She said: “In that moment my heart was totally broken – I died too that day.

“This is a nightmare from which I cannot wake. There is no relief from my personal hell and the mental torture that has been inflicted upon me by that boy.

“A boy that has no regard for the life of another.”