A teenage boy who stabbed 12-year-old Ava White following a row over a Snapchat video has been found guilty of her murder. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had claimed he accidentally stabbed the schoolgirl in the neck in self-defence.
He told the court he wanted to “frighten her away” after an altercation in Liverpool city centre on the evening of November 25 last year. He admitted possessing the knife, which the court heard had a 7.5cm blade, but denied her murder and manslaughter.
During the trial, which lasted just over two weeks, the court heard Ava and her friends became involved in an argument with the defendant and three of his friends after the boys recorded Snapchat videos of the group. Friends of Ava said the boy “grinned” after stabbing her in School Lane and running away.
