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British boy (14) guilty of murder of 12-year-old student

The boy denied any guilt in the case during the 12-day trial. He said he had acted in self-defense. But it didn’t take the jury much time to find him guilty of murder. He becomes one of the youngest convicted murderers from British history, the Guardian newspaper reports.

Video on Snapchat

According to the prosecutor, he was with three friends and filmed the group of girls watching the Christmas lights turn on. Ava broke away from the group of friends and asked if he wanted to remove the video he had posted on Snapchat in the meantime. Then he stabbed her in the neck.

Although many surveillance images show that he must have been the perpetrator, he first denied that he had been there at all. He mentioned that he was playing video games with a friend. In later interrogations, he blamed another boy.


Video footage showed the members of the jury how the group of friends romped through the center of Liverpool. The moment of the stabbing incident was also visible: Ava was facing the boy, who lashed out with his right arm. In his right hand was a shiny object, probably the knife, which was only found last March on directions from the boy’s lawyers.

‘Shut up’

The prosecutor pointed to the disinterested manner in which the boy underwent the police interrogations. Records show that he answered questions with words like, “I don’t care,” “I don’t fucking know,” or simply, “No comment.” He also said “Shut up, pedo” to a detective who was questioning him.

More than twenty relatives of the girl who died witnessed the jury’s verdict in court. The verdict was followed by cheers from the public gallery.


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