US EditionTeenager pleads guilty to murder of 12-year-old boy Leo Ross in Birmingham
The 15-year-old admitted to stabbing Leo Ross and multiple assaults, with police describing the attack as random and unprovoked with no link between victim and assailant.
- The 15-year-old entered guilty pleas to murder at Birmingham Crown Court today, admitting to stabbing 12-year-old Leo Ross in the stomach as he walked home.
- Following a delay of over six months for psychiatric assessments, the defendant, 14 at the time of the attack and now 15, pleaded guilty to offences on January 19 and 20, 2025.
- Forensic and CCTV evidence placed the defendant at the scene, linking a knife and blood on clothing to the crime, while West Midlands Police said the knife was discarded in a nearby river.
- Judge Paul Farrer KC set sentencing for February 10 and said, `I can't sentence you today for a number of reasons...` and remanded the defendant into youth detention.
- Leo’s family and school mourned him and called for justice and remembrance; the defendant admitted attacks on three elderly women beyond the 12-year-old victim from Christ Church C of E Secondary Academy.
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Leo Ross, barely 12 years old, was walking to his home in Birmingham, United Kingdom, just over a year ago when another teenager - whose name cannot be disclosed for legal reasons - approached him and stabbed him mortally in the stomach. Now, this last young man has pleaded guilty to having killed him in a stabbing defined by the investigators as « nonsense» and «not provoked». Prior to the attack, which occurred on January 21, 2025, Leo had jus…
A 15-year-old British boy confessed this Thursday before a court to have killed for no specific reason and randomly another 12 years old last year in a Birmingham park in central England.At the time of the events, on 21 January 2025, the perpetrator of the murder — whose identity is kept secret because he is a minor — was 14 years old.This Thursday a hearing was held in a Birmingham court, where the young man confessed the facts, in addition to …
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