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Teenager guilty of murder over Harry Pitman's stabbing at New Year's Eve event
Lloyd-Hall was convicted by an 11-1 jury majority after a retrial for fatally stabbing Harry Pitman amid a scuffle during a New Year's Eve event.
- After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Areece Lloyd-Hall was found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Harry Pitman by a majority of 11 to one following nearly eight hours of jury deliberation.
- A scuffle shortly after 11.30pm sparked the confrontation between strangers Harry Pitman and Areece Lloyd-Hall, who came to Primrose Hill park with separate friend groups.
- Lloyd-Hall lunged with a pointed dagger metres from uniformed police officers, mobile phone footage shows the knife sheath flying as he fled, discarding the knife, clothes, and phone before surrendering at Hammersmith police station on January 4 2024.
- The teenager will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on November 10, with gasps from Harry’s family heard in court as the verdict was delivered.
- Jurors were told Areece Lloyd-Hall suffered cannabis-induced paranoia and possible PTSD, and at an October last year trial, a jury found him guilty of possession of an offensive weapon.
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