A teenage boy who murdered 12-year-old schoolgirl Ava White will not be named after a judge rejected demands to lift his anonymity – as he is jailed for 13 years for stabbing her to death outside a Primark in a row over a social media video.
The killer teen, then aged 14, stabbed young Ava in the neck with a flick knife outside the clothing store in Liverpool on November 25 last year.
The boy knifed the Year 8 Catholic school pupil after an argument about him filming her and her friends on social media following a firework display in the city centre.
Friends of Ava said the boy ‘grinned’ after stabbing her and then ran. Him and his friends were later seen on CCTV going into a nearby shop.
His sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court comes after a judge earlier rejected family and media demands to lift a legal provision protecting the killer’s anonymity.
The boy’s identity is automatically protected under UK law, due to him being under the age of 18. However a judge can make an order for…
