A 15-year-old boy who boasted about stabbing another teenager to death can be named after a judge ruled it was in the public interest and should act as a deterrent to young people carrying knives.
Leighton Amies shouted "I've wetted your boy" at a gang after he knifed Tomasz Oleszak deep in his chest as he walked through a nature park in Gateshead last October. The defendant had denied murder, claiming he did not know he had stabbed Tomasz and slashed another youth's coat after being attacked by the group.
During the trial Amies could not be named by the media but Mr Justice Spencer, sitting at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday, lifted the reporting ban.
