Jealous MacPhail stalked Holly Newton before inflicting 36 blows with a 6inch knife in an alleyway.
A teen stalker who brutally knifed his ex-girlfriend to death in a dark alleyway has been jailed for 17 years. Obsessive Logan MacPhail followed 15-year-old Holly Newton through Hexham in Northumberland after she left school on January 27, 2023.
MacPhail was caught on camera boarding a bus in Gateshead, wearing a black puffer jacket, black cap, tracksuit bottoms and trainers. He had a 6in knife stowed away in his backpack. He was later seen on CCTV speaking to Holly at a bus stop just moments before he fatally attacked her. One blow fatally penetrated her back, entering her chest and lung, as she screamed, alerting horrified passers by. He also slashed the throat of a 16-year-old boy who tried to save her, narrowly missing an artery in his neck.
Justice Hillier said: "The stark facts are that you made the decision to stab a 15-year-old to death with a knife you were carrying unlawfully in a public place, having followed her secretly around town for an hour because your relationship had ended and you were jealous of the fact that she might see someone else.
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