He said that earlier in the evening he heard one of Ava’s group threaten to stab his friend if he did not delete a video of Ava. The defendant told the jury: “I promise, I didn’t mean to hit her.” He admitted possessing the knife, which the court heard had a 7.5cm blade, but denied her murder and manslaughter.ĭuring 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.įriends of Ava said the boy “grinned” after stabbing her in School Lane and running away. 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.
The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had claimed he accidentally stabbed the schoolgirl in the neck in self-defence. A teenage boy who stabbed 12-year-old Ava White following a row over a Snapchat video has been found guilty of her murder.
