The life of a boy who unleashed a tsunami of grief and shock on Liverpool will be examined from his birth, until the moment he killed 12-year-old Ava White, to find out one question - Why?
When detectives began investigating who stabbed popular Notre Dame High School student Ava in Liverpool City Centre on November 25, 2021, the facts were horrific but relatively uncomplicated. A 14-year-old boy lashes out with a flick-knife during a petty row over him filming Ava on his phone, and causes catastrophic injuries to her neck. With extensive CCTV coverage and plenty of witness evidence, finding the killer happened within hours.
Merseyside Police were not dealing with a hardened criminal with gangland connections. The culprit, who cannot be identified, was 'Boy A', a deeply immature south Liverpool teenager with ADHD and who stood little chance of outsmarting murder detectives.
