Killer of 12-year-old schoolboy named

The killer of 12-year-old schoolboy Leo Ross has been named after a court order protecting his anonymity was lifted.

Kian Moulton, who was 14 at the time of the attack, stabbed Leo in the stomach while he was walking home from school in Birmingham in January 2025.

Moulton, now aged 15, was sentenced to a minimum term of 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday, having pleaded guilty to murder last month.

He also admitted a string of other offences after he attacked three elderly women in the days leading up to the killing, with two of them suffering severe injuries.

Birmingham Crown Court heard the defendant was "a young man with formidable mental health problems" but knew and was aware of the consequences of his actions.

Judge Mr Justice Choudhury KC said Moulton chose Leo because he was a smaller boy.

He added that after the attack, the teenager had cycled around Trittiford Mill Park telling people a boy had been stabbed, appearing to get "pleasure from seeing the consequences" of his actions.

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