Teenager, now 17, was convicted after inflicting 36 injuries with kitchen knife on Holly Newton, then 15, in alleyway

A teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in the street has been named after a judge lifted reporting restrictions that prevented his identity from being disclosed.

Logan MacPhail, now 17, was convicted of murdering Holly Newton in Hexham, Northumberland. He attacked her because he was jealous that she was with someone else, and could not accept that their relationship was over.

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