{"id":22753,"date":"2022-07-11T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=22753"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:48:00","slug":"ava-white-boy-who-killed-girl-12-in-snapchat-row-gets-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/07\/11\/ava-white-boy-who-killed-girl-12-in-snapchat-row-gets-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava White: Boy who killed girl, 12, in Snapchat row gets life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 15-year-old boy who stabbed a schoolgirl to death after a row over a Snapchat video has been sentenced for her murder.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ava White, 12, was killed in Liverpool city centre after a Christmas lights switch-on event in November 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed he accidentally stabbed her in self-defence but was found guilty after a trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was sentenced to life with a minimum of 13 years at Liverpool Crown Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The trial heard Ava and her friends became involved in an argument with the teenager and three of his friends after the boys recorded Snapchat videos of her group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ava’s friends said the boy, who was 14 at the time, “grinned” after stabbing her in the neck with a flick-knife before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was taken to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with critical injuries and died a short time later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ava White was described as a “kind hearted little girl” by her mother (Image: Police Handout)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The boy then dumped the knife and took off his coat, which was later found in a wheelie bin, as he began covering up his actions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CCTV later showed him and his friends in a shop where the boy took a selfie and bought butter, which he said was for crumpets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He then went to a friend’s home and when his mother contacted him to tell him police wanted to speak to him he told her he was playing a computer game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The boy was arrested at about 22:30 GMT, just two hours after the fatal stabbing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CCTV footage shows the boy fleeing from the scene (Image: Police Handout)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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CCTV also captured the defendant and his friends in a shop shortly after Ava was stabbed
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The court heard he denied being in the city centre at all before going on to blame another boy for the stabbing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He later said he heard one of Ava’s group threaten to stab his friend if he did not delete a video of Ava and claimed he had wanted only to “frighten her away” and had not meant to stab her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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