The Court of Appeal has refused to allow fresh evidence in an appeal being brought by the teenager who lured 14-year-old schoolgirl Ana Kriegel to a derelict house so that his friend could murder her.
Following the ruling, the court set a date of October 5 to hear the full appeal against the now 17-year-old teenager's murder conviction.
Mr Justice George Birmingham, delivering the ruling of the three-judge court today, said that the application to bring fresh evidence on behalf of the teenager known only as Boy B does not come near the threshold set for such cases. He said that Boy B was attempting to "set at naught" the way that his trial was run and having hired a new legal team was trying to run an entirely different case in the appeal court.
