Logan MacPhail was identified as Holly Newton's killer
The family of a 15 year-old who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend said her killer was controlling and want the crime to be classified as domestic violence.
Her mother Micala Trussler told the BBC that when she received a phone call saying her daughter had been attacked, she immediately knew who had done it. She said: “He didn’t like her having other friends. He didn’t like her going out without him. He needed to know where she was all the time. The night before the fatal attack in January 2023, MacPhail had travelled 40 miles from his home in Gateshead to Holly’s house in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, trying to get in by claiming he wanted a game console back, and hung around for hours. Mrs Trussler was concerned enough to contact the police and arranged to speak to an officer about MacPhail’s behaviour the next afternoon but Holly persuaded her mother to put it off so she could meet friends.
MacPhail was convicted of murder, as well as wounding with intent on a boy who stepped in to try to stop him, following a trial in August and he will be sentenced at the end of this month. Lifting the reporting restriction, Mr Justice Hilliard said: “There is great public concern about murders by young people who have carried knives in public places and about violence to women and girls.
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