A murderer and his lying girlfriend will learn their fate later this month as a plan has been agreed on sentencing.
Jake Rollinson, who fatally stabbed 16-year-old Joseph Whitchurch, and Rollinson's partner, Lorna Richardson, who helped Rollinson give false accounts to police, are due in court this Friday, March 11.
The case against Richardson, 25, of Blake Road in Stapleford, has yet to be heard in court and needs to be outlined against her in court before she is sentenced with Rollinson.
They both pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after they were filmed giving false accounts to officers, after Joe was stabbed, which the prosecution had said was intended to "wrong-foot" the police investigation.
Rollinson 20, of Hickings Lane, Stapleford, was convicted of the murder of Joe on Wednesday, September 1.
Joe was stabbed at least four times by Rollinson on Boxing Day morning, and died on December 29, 2020.
Sentencing hearings were adjourned repeatedly for various reasons for Rollinson which included a request for Rollinson to see a psychiatrist.
Now it has been decided the case should be listed on Friday, March 11, and, if necessary, sentencing will be on Monday, March 14, at Nottingham Crown Court.
On February 25 this year an inquest concluded into Joe's death.
Assistant coroner Elizabeth Didcock ruled his death as an unlawful killing.
She said that a decision to perform an operation on Joseph in an ambulance whilst on the way to hospital did not have any bearing on the outcome. She described the first response to the incident as "exemplary".
She agreed with the post mortem, which found the cause of death had been: 1a) hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (lack of oxygen to the brain)
1b) cardio respiratory arrest
1c) stab wound to chest
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