Police to question 14-year-old arrested for alleged stabbing of Leo, 12, over separate assaults on elderly people

A 14-year-old boy being held on suspicion of the murder of 12-year-old Leo Ross has been arrested for three assaults on elderly people in the same area of Birmingham shortly before the killing.

Police said they had been granted more time to question the 14-year-old, who has now been arrested in relation to three assaults in the Hall Green area on 19, 20 and 21 January, with the last one taking place shortly before the stabbing of Leo.