Child murderer named and pictured for first time as Leighton Amies faces jail for stabbing boy, 14, to death
A 15-year-old boy cdonvicted of murdering a 14-year-old in park has been named and identified publicly for the first time.
The judge ruled in today's courtroom that the public interest in him being named outweighted Amies' interests in having his name withheld in media reports, despite pleas by his defence team and the youth offending team that he should remain anonymous.
"The prosecution accept someone had said they were going to hit the defendant and some people in the group had approached the defendant before the stabbing. Mr McKone said: "The witness confirmed he could not actually see the knife because it was dark. said: ‘I was gonna jump in for Tom, but as soon as he hit Tom he turned and tried to swing for me but I jumped back and he only got my coat’. He said his coat was ripped in the heart area."
The witness said: "I think they were going to go hit the kid. And the kid’s turned around and I don’t know what he used because it was too dark for us to see, I seen a few shadows, like, collide together, and I heard, “Your boy’s been wetted,” which means your boy’s been stabbed. And then at that point everyone start running away because we knew he had a knife."
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