Schoolboy who stabbed ex-girlfriend to death named as Logan MacPhail
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA schoolboy who stalked his ex-girlfriend before murdering her in a frenzied knife attack has been named for the first time today.
Trial judge Mr Justice Hilliard ruled that Logan MacPhail - now 17 but aged 16 at the time of the murder last year - should be identified in the public interest, lifting an order put in place to protect minors, the Mirror reports.
It comes weeks before the teenager is due to be sentenced for the murder which he was found guilty of in August. His victim, Holly Newton, 15, had complained about the obsessive behaviour of MacPhail just hours before he repeatedly stabbed her in an alleyway.
She was left with 36 injuries inflicted in little more than a minute on January 27 last year. READ MORE: The downfall of the cocaine kingpin dragged back from Spain MacPhail travelled 90 minutes from his school 25 miles away in Gateshead to pursue Holly as she left Queen Elizabeth High School at 3.30pm in Hexham, Northumberland.
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