"A teenage boy who stabbed 12-year-old Leo Ross to death in a random attack has been detained for a minimum of 13 years. The boy, aged 15, also tried to drown an 82-year-old woman and attacked two other elderly women days before the fatal incident. He admitted to Leo's murder at a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court in January. Leo died after being taken to hospital from a riverside path in Shire Country Park, Hall Green, Birmingham, on January 21 last year."
"The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, injured three women in separate attacks in the days before he stabbed Leo in the stomach as he walked home from school. The defendant, who was aged 14 at time of the killing, admitted two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent on 19 and 20 January 2025, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 21 January 2025 in relation to the separate attacks on other victims, as well as having a bladed article on the day he killed Leo."
"Prosecution counsel Rachel Brand KC told a sentencing hearing at the same court on Tuesday that the defendant, who sat in the dock wearing a navy blue Nike tracksuit, had attacked women in the days before he killed Leo. Describing the first incident, Ms Brand said Leo's killer told an 82-year-old woman, I tried to drown you, but now I'm going to kill you after pushing her into a river and hitting her with her own walking pole. The woman was walking alone in the country park at some point between 12.30pm and 1.15pm on 19 January when she was injured."
A 15-year-old boy stabbed 12-year-old Leo Ross to death on 21 January 2025 and has been detained for a minimum of 13 years. He admitted murder at Birmingham Crown Court and pleaded guilty to two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent on 19 and 20 January 2025, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 21 January 2025, plus possession of a bladed article. He injured three women in separate attacks in the days before the killing, including pushing an 82-year-old woman into a river and threatening to kill her. Two additional charges were ordered to lie on file.
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