Boy found guilty of murdering 15-year-old Holly Newton in Northumberland

Holly was said to have been ‘extremely nervous’ when she left school on the day of the attack. Photograph: PA

A teenage boy has been found guilty of murdering the schoolgirl Holly Newton, inflicting 36 knife wounds, after he was said to have stalked her.

The boy, now 17, had admitted manslaughter but denied murdering 15-year-old Holly in Hexham, Northumberland, in January 2023.