Obsessive Logan MacPhail has finally been identified as the teenager who murdered his ex-girlfriend Holly Newton, 15, in a frenzied knife assault.
A schoolboy who pursued his ex-girlfriend before killing her in a frenzied knife attack has been unmasked, despite being under 18. Mr Justice Hilliard, the trial judge, concluded that Logan MacPhail, who is now 17 but was 16 at the time of the murder, should be identified in the public interest, removing an order to protect minors.
He was dressed in a black puffa jacket, black hat, tracksuit pants, and trainers, with the 6in knife in a bag on his back. He boards at 1.41pm and is observed looking about as he exits the No 10 bus from the MetroCentre in Hexham bus station, arriving at 3.13pm. He had been outside of Holly's home in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Lifting the order today, Mr Justice Hillier said: "There is great public concern about murders by young people who have carried knives in public places and about violence to women and girls.
Holly's mum Micala Trussler told how her daughter had "begged" her to let her go into town after school on the day of her murder rather than come home to meet the police about the stalking, so the meeting was rescheduled for later that evening. "In the end, the biggest mistake of my life," she said. "He has ruined our lives and he took Holly's."
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