The teen and his co-defendant, Kai Howitt, killed 24-year-old Jack Edwards
A killer from Nottingham murdered a man on his 13th birthday. Liverpool Crown Court heard how the teen and 18-year-old Kai Howitt took Jack Edward’s life in a group attack at a city centre skate park.
"You did nothing to help him, you used a brick as a weapon, this was a group attack. You outflanked him while he was distracted by the other youths.An earlier two-week trial, at Nottingham Crown Court, heard how Mr Edwards suffered “catastrophic brain injuries” after being hit by a brick or rock thrown during a confrontation with a group of youths in Sussex Street at around 6.50pm on Tuesday, December 5, last year.
The morning after the incident, the 13-year-old defendant, whose identity is protected by law, searched for how long someone would be sentenced to for “bricking” someone, Mr Aspden said. He said the younger boy received a message from a friend reading: “Kai bricked that yute”, to which he replied “I did it as well”.
Mr Aspden said: “We accept there was an intention to cause really serious injury but not an intention to kill and we accept there was a degree of provocation." “I will never see his smile light up the room and never hear him laugh again. There's an endless, crippling, pain no parent should ever have to feel. Our son and brother has been taken away from us and we have unimaginable loss for the rest of our lives."
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