The jury has been sent out in the murder trial for the death of 15-year-old Leeds schoolboy Alfie Lewis.
A 15-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - is accused of stabbing Alfie to death outside a school in Horsforth on the afternoon of November 7 last year. He admits delivering the fatal blow with a kitchen knife he had brought from home, but claims he feared for his own safety that day. The judge, The Honourable Justice Barry Cotter KC told the jury: “The essential facts of this case are not in dispute.
Then a week before his death, the boy told the court that Alfie had tried to rob him of his bag but he managed to run away. The teenager, fearing for his safety, took the knife from the kitchen at his home, telling the court he feared he would bump into Alfie that day. He hid it in the waistband of his trousers and carried it around all day.
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