The man accused of murdering a teenager has appeared in court this morning.
Felipe Figueiredo has been charged with killing schoolboy Dylan Bragger on Thursday, June 29. Police and paramedics were called to reports of a stabbing at around 9pm and found the 15-year-old had been stabbed to death, on Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale.
A short time later, officers arrested a man in connection with the murder. Figueiredo, 28, appeared by video link from custody for the hearing this morning on Tuesday, July 4. He has not yet entered a plea to the charge of murder of which he is accused.