Ava White's alleged killer says he "didn't mean to" stab the schoolgirl and was "trying to get her away from me".
Boy A, 14, denies the murder and manslaughter of 12-year-old Ava in Liverpool city centre. Today he told a jury he thought she was a boy, who might be armed, and feared she was going to "batter" him.
The teen, from South Liverpool, cannot be named for legal reasons. He was cross-examined by prosecutors at Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon about the stabbing, on November 25 last year.
