Boy who stabbed Alfie Lewis, 15, on way home from school guilty of murder

A 15-year-old boy who stabbed another teenager through the heart on the way home from school has been found guilty of murder.

The defendant showed no visible emotion and later held hands with his parents through a gap in the dock glass before being taken away.He told the defendant: “You have been found guilty of murder. There is only one sentence I can pass. What I have to determine is how many years you will be detained before you are able to be released.”

The prosecutor said a post-mortem examination revealed that the fatal stab injury was a 14cm deep wound to Alfie’s chest which punctured his heart. The defendant, who cannot be named, told the jury he was scared of Alfie following two incidents in the months before. Speaking outside court after the verdict, Alfie Lewis’s brother, Antony Lewis, thanked the jury “for reaching what, to us, appears a sensible and obvious conclusion, that Alfie did not pose a threat to anyone around him, and his death was senseless”.

Senior investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Stacey Atkinson said Alfie “was not involved in gangs or any other criminality that could have put him at risk of knife crime”.

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