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Getaway driver Antony Snook jailed over murders of two teenagers who died in machete attack

Getaway driver Antony Snook jailed over murders of two teenagers who died in machete attack

Getaway driver Antony Snook has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years over the murders of two teenagers.

Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, died in a machete attack after a case of mistaken identity.

Snook, 45, drove Riley Tolliver, 18, and boys aged 15, 16 and 17 to and from Knowle West in Bristol where they murdered Rist and Dixon on 27 January.

Snook had driven Tolliver and the other boys, who for legal reasons cannot be named, as part of a revenge mission, Bristol Crown Court heard, after bricks were thrown at a house in the Hartcliffe district earlier that evening.

Around an hour after that attack, Snook left the property with two of the boys and picked up the other two in a nearby street before heading to Knowle West, where they saw Rist and Dixon in the street as they headed for a pizza.

Mistakenly believing the two boys had been responsible for the attack, Tolliver, who had a baseball bat, and the three teenagers armed with machetes jumped out of the car and chased after them.

Max and Mason were each pursued by two attackers as they went different ways on the street.

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Tolliver and the 15-year-old boy attacked Mason while the 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy chased Max.

The 17-year-old boy also struck Mason, who was lying injured on the ground, as he headed back to the Audi after attacking Max.

A CCTV camera on Mason’s nearby house captured how the attack lasted just 33 seconds from the car pulling up to the teenagers getting back in and leaving.

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