Overview

• Mrs Justice Ellenbogen will rule on media and defence submissions about lifting the teenager’s anonymity during the sentencing hearing on October 22.
• Caroline Willgoose said on ITV that, although she feels sympathy for her son’s killer, he must be made an example of and lose his legal anonymity.
• Press organisations, including PA Media, have applied to have the anonymity order removed to allow full public reporting of the case.
• The family’s campaign for airport-style knife arches in secondary schools has drawn commitments from Justice Minister Alex Davies-Jones and is under review by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
• At trial jurors rejected the defendant’s manslaughter plea and convicted him of murder after hearing prosecution evidence of weapon imagery and premeditated planning.