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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Adam Maidment & Seamus McDonnell

Boy handed 15 year sentence for brutal stabbing of 15-year-old Reece Tansey

A teenage attacker who was found guilty of murdering Bolton schoolboy Reece Tansey has been handed a 15 year sentence.

Another boy, found guilty of manslaughter for his part in the brutal stabbing of 15-year-old Reece, was jailed for six years.

A court heard that the attackers - named Boy A and Boy B for legal reasons - had agreed to meet up in the early hours of May 4 in Walker Avenue, Bolton, because of an escalating dispute between Boy B and a friend of the victim.

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