Two of Ava White’s friends told a court today the schoolgirl said she could “batter” the boy accused of killing her in the minutes before she was stabbed, a court heard.
Ava died after she was stabbed by a 14-year-old boy in School Lane in Liverpool city centre. Boy A accepts responsibility for her fatal injury, but says he acted in self-defence. The teen, from South Liverpool, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murder and manslaughter.
Today a trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard evidence from two girls who were in the city centre with Ava around the time of the incident about what happened on November 25, 2021. The jury has previously heard how the friends were in town and had been drinking vodka and “messing around” near St John’s Shopping Centre before being moved on by a security guard.
