A 15-year-old has been convicted of murdering a software engineer, stabbed in the chest after a row at an Asda supermarket. All five youths, aged 13 to 15 and who cannot be named for legal reasons, had denied murder, an alternative charge of manslaughter and violent disorder. The prosecution said the youths murdered Mr Kirwan, who was shopping for a light switch, after he challenged them for messing about in the supermarket’s customer toilets. Prosecutors said the film showed three members of the group handling two separate knives before the fatal stabbing of Mr Kirwan. The boy convicted of murder, who appeared in court by video-link, had admitted to stabbing Mr Kirwan.
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