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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tom Wilkinson

Leighton Amies: 15-year-old murderer who boasted about knife attack on boy unmasked

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.

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