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A teenage boy who stabbed 12-year-old Leo Ross to death in a random attack has been detained for a minimum of 13 years.
The boy, aged 15, also tried to drown an 82-year-old woman and attacked two other elderly women days before the fatal incident.
He admitted Leo’s murder at a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court in January.
Leo died after being taken to hospital from a riverside path in Shire Country Park, Hall Green, Birmingham, on January 21 last year.
The boy, who canno
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