Tragic schoolboy, 12, was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’ when he was stabbed to death in park

A ‘kind’ 12-year-old schoolboy was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’ when he was stabbed to death in a park. 

Leo Ross was found by a member of the public with a stab wound to the stomach on the banks of the River Cole in the affluent Hall Green area of Birmingham at 3pm on Tuesday.

He was treated at the scene but was sadly pronounced dead around four hours later.

Following his death, officers arrested a 14-year-old with a Birmingham address on suspicion of murder and he currently remains in police custody.

Paying tribute to the youngster, Leo’s devastated classmates described him as ‘helpful and welcoming’, while his heartbroken family said he was ‘funny, sweet and had not one aggressive bone in his body’.

It is thought Leo was targeted on the way home from school, just a 10-minute journey, and one local woman told BBC Midlands Today he did not deserve what happened to him.

Describing the youngster as a ‘lovely, caring, innocent little boy’, she added: ‘He was in the wrong place…