Logan MacPhail, then aged 16, stalked Holly Newton for an hour before knifing her 36 times in an alleyway
A teenager who stabbed his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend to death in the street has been detained for life with a minimum term of 17 years. Logan MacPhail, then aged 16, stalked Holly Newton for an hour through Hexham, Northumberland, before knifing her 36 times in an alleyway.
The prosecution said MacPhail, who has autism and learning difficulties, did not accept that their 18-month relationship was over. The night before he murdered Holly, he travelled 40 miles from his home in Gateshead to hers in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, where he hung around for hours. In a victim statement on Thursday, Mrs Trussler described not being able to be with her fatally-injured daughter in hospital because her body “was a crime scene”. The mother-of-four said Holly and MacPhail had a typical teenage relationship at first, but her daughter came to realise he was controlling her.
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