Logan MacPhail Murders Holly Newton In England

Logan MacPhail
Logan MacPhail

Logan MacPhail is a teen killer from England who would murder his ex girlfriend Holly Newton

According to court documents Logan MacPhail and Holly Newton would end their relationship and sixteen year old Logan did not take it well

Logan MacPhail would stalk the fifteen year old girl for an hour waiting for her to be alone when he would attack stabbing Holly Newton multiple times causing her death

Logan MacPhail would be arrested and charged with murder

At trial Logan would admit to the killing of Holly Newton but attempted to put forward he was guilty of manslaughter and not murder however in the end he would be convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for seventeen years

Logan MacPhail Case

An obsessed and jealous teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in an alleyway has been detained for life and told he will serve a minimum of 17 years.

Logan MacPhail murdered 15-year-old Holly Newton in Hexham, Northumberland, in January 2023.

He stabbed her 36 times after he stalked her for an hour as she walked with friends after school.

On Friday, Mr Justice Hilliard described the attack on Holly as “vicious and brutal”.

Newcastle crown court heard that MacPhail, who was 16 at the time of the murder and is now 17, had been Holly’s first and only boyfriend and at the start it was “a typical teenage relationship”.

But Logan MacPhail became obsessed with Holly, wanting to know where she was and who she was going out with. Holly’s mother, Micala Trussler, said her daughter was a victim of domestic abuse.

He killed Holly, from Haltwhistle, Northumberland, after she tried to break up with him.

The judge said the relationship between MacPhail and Holly had “its ups and downs” but was nothing out of the ordinary.When Holly indicated the relationship was over “you were not able to accept that. You were obsessed by Holly”, he said.

MacPhail lured Holly into an alleyway with the specific aim of attacking her where other people could not intervene, he said. “You were filled with resentment and jealousy but still able to calculate where you could best attack her and able to wait until you got that opportunity.”

Hilliard said the attack had lasted a minute or so and included stab wounds to her head. It meant Holly’s mother was prevented from seeing her daughter because of the “horrifying condition she was in”.

Trussler spoke at the sentencing hearing of being unable to hug, kiss or even touch her daughter because she was “a crime scene, she was evidence”.

Hilliard said: “The stark facts are that you made a conscious decision to stab a 15-year-old girl to death with a knife that you were carrying unlawfully in a public place having followed her secretly around town for an hour, all because your relationship with her had ended.

“You were jealous of the fact she might see someone else.

“What happened in this case should not happen to any child or any parent.”

Speaking of the family’s loss, the judge said: “All those years ahead for a 15-year-old girl that she and they will never see.”

Logan MacPhail also stabbed a boy who tried to intervene to help Holly. The boy stood up in court to deliver a victim impact statement in which he said he was struggling with his mental health and found it difficult to concentrate.

The court heard that the night before he murdered Holly, MacPhail had travelled 40 miles from his home to hers and hung around for hours.

He was eventually taken home by police who had been alerted by his mother that he was missing.

MacPhail, from Gateshead, has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and has learning difficulties, but the judge said he was sure he knew what he was doing.

Nigel Edwards KC, defending, said MacPhail’s progress since being in secure accommodation has been “meteoric”.

The judge told MacPhail: “I am sure you can make further progress if you continue to try whilst you are in custody, you can definitely do better than you sometimes think.”

Holly’s family believe she was a victim of MacPhail’s controlling behaviour and domestic abuse, but she is too young for it to be categorised that way.

Trussler told the court: “I do not agree that only those over the age of 16 can be victims of domestic abuse and I will use Holly’s experience to petition for change.

“I firmly believe that Logan thought if he couldn’t have Holly, then no one else could.”

Susan Dungworth, the police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, backed the family’s call for a law change. “We need an urgent review of current legislation and how the system can better protect young victims in coercive, controlling and abusive relationships,” she said.

MacPhail claimed he never planned to attack Holly but wanted to use the knife to kill himself. He denied murder but admitted manslaughter, claiming he blacked out, but a jury rejected his story after a six-week trial.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/01/teenager-who-killed-ex-girlfriend-jailed-for-life-logan-macphail-holly-newton-northumberland

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Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle Murder Nathaniel Shani

Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle
Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle

Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle are two teen killers from England who would murder fourteen year old Nathaniel Shani

According to court documents fourteen year old Kyle Dermody and thirteen year old Trey Stewart-Gayle had a falling out with Nathaniel Shani. The three young teens agreed to meet in a alley to settle their differences in a fist fight however the two teen killers came armed with a knife and screwdriver. Nathaniel would be stabbed causing his death

Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle would be arrested and ultimately convicted of the murder

The two teen killers would be sentenced to life in prison however due to their young ages at the time of the murder Kyle Dermody is eligible for release after thirteen years and Trey Stewart-Gayle after ten years

Kyle Dermody and Trey Stewart-Gayle Case

The teen killers found guilty of murdering 14-year-old Nathaniel Shani when they were just 14 and 13 have been named for the first time.

Kyle Dermody, now 15, knifed Nathaniel to the neck in Harpurhey, after a row over cannabis.

A second teen, 14-year-old Trey Stewart-Gayle, was also convicted of murder.

Stewart-Gayle, then 13, who had been armed with a screwdriver, was found to have ‘encouraged and assisted’ Dermody.

Reporting restrictions have been in force prohibiting both teenagers from being named in press reports surrounding Nathaniel’s murder.

However, their names have now been disclosed for the first time.

n her ruling, High Court judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen said: “The public will wish to know the identities of those who commit such a serious offence in seeking to understand how it is that children of that age can do so. Knife crime in general and the circumstances of this particular case are matters of substantial public interest.”

Last month, the pair were both detained at His Majesty’s Pleasure, the youth equivalent of a life sentence. Dermody will have to serve at least 13 years, while Stewart-Gayle was ordered to be detained for at least ten years.

When she sentenced them, the judge said of their victim: “That a boy of his age should have met his death by boys of a similar age is a tragedy – sadly it is no longer shocking.”

The trial heard that Nathaniel died following a row over cannabis theft.

Nathaniel and Kyle Dermody, who had previously been friends and attended Manchester Communications Academy together, had met in an alleyway off Tavistock Square on September 15 last year as part of a ‘fight to settle differences’.

There had previously been a ‘fall out’ between Dermody and Nathaniel and they had ‘engaged in physical fights’.

Nathaniel was said to have ‘viewed himself as a hard kid’ who was ‘interested in a reputation that matched that’.

Prior to his death, Nathaniel had become involved in ‘street level’ drug dealing ‘through people older than him’.

Detectives told the Manchester Evening News that he had been exploited by a dealer, and had only been involved for about two weeks prior to his murder. Police said Nathaniel’s family had no idea of his association with drugs.

On the day of the killing, cannabis had been stolen from a friend of Nathaniel’s by Stewart-Gayle. Nathaniel was said to have viewed the incident as a ‘loss of face’ and was ‘determined’ to get the drugs back.

An arrangement was made for a ‘one v one fight’ to ‘sort things’. Nathaniel arrived in the square at about 6pm and met with the pair.

Stewart-Gayle was said to have ‘tried to egg him on’. During the ensuing confrontation Nathaniel punched Dermody, who produced a knife and stabbed him to the neck. Stewart-Gayle told Dermody to ‘do it’ after he had produced the weapon.

Nathaniel was seen clutching his neck after being knifed, before collapsing in the square. He was pronounced dead at 7.08pm.

During the trial, Dermody claimed that he believed that Nathaniel had a knife, and said he was acting in self-defence.

Stewart-Gayle handed himself in to police the following day. In a prepared statement he said he had taken the screwdriver from Dermody, but denied intending to use it.

He said Nathaniel had disarmed him of it and threw it at Dermody. Stewart-Gayle admitted taking cannabis from another boy. Both boys were found guilty of murder after a trial.

Sentencing, the judge said: “Whatever his flaws, Nathaniel did not deserve to die and not in such a violent way.

“He deserved the opportunity to better himself and to make a positive contribution to society.

“Unlike you, and by reason of your senseless behaviour he will never now be able to do so.”

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2024-07-17/teen-killers-named-for-first-time-after-murdering-14-year-old-nathaniel-shani

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Alice Wood Murders Ryan Watson

Alice Wood is a killer from Manchester England who would murder her boyfriend Ryan Watson for flirting with another woman

According to court documents Alice Wood and Ryan Watson were involved in an argument where she would accuse him of flirting with another woman. Instead of letting the argument go Alice would jump into her vehicle and mow Ryan Watson over, dragging him for several hundred feet. Watson would die from his injuries

Alice Wood would be arrested, convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for eighteen years

Alice Wood Case

A philosophy student who killed her fiance when she ran over him with her car after she “lost her temper” has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 18 years.

Alice Wood, 24, was found guilty of the murder of her 24-year-old fiance Ryan Watson at about 11.30pm on 6 May 2022 when she ran over him near their Cheshire home after an argument.

Wood had denied murder and instead pleaded guilty to manslaughter, claiming the incident was a “tragic accident” and she did not realise he was trapped underneath her car when she drove 158 metres up a road.

A jury rejected her account and unanimously found her guilty of murder last month.

Passing sentence at Chester crown court on Friday, Judge Michael Leeming said: “Prison may be hard for you, Alice Wood, but you only have yourself to blame for the situation you now find yourself in.”

The three-week trial heard the couple had spent the evening at a party in Stoke-on-Trent with staff and service users of the brain injury charity Headway, where Watson was a support worker.

Speaking through tears for much of her evidence, Wood told the court that while they were driving home, Watson had “flipped” and accused her of flirting with other men, and the argument continued when they arrived at the house they shared.

She said she had left the house and got into her car to drive away, but Watson had followed her.

The prosecution said Wood, who had recently been awarded a scholarship for a master’s at Cambridge, “used her car as a weapon”, with CCTV showing she veered off the road and hit Watson twice. The first time he was hit, Watson fell on to the bonnet of the Ford Fiesta before stumbling to his feet as he was hit again.

He became trapped underneath the car as Wood drove 158 metres up the road before stopping, and knocking on the door of a nearby house where she said: “Please phone an ambulance. I think I’ve run over my boyfriend.”

Wood was preparing for final exams in theology, philosophy and ethics at Manchester University at the time of the murder and on the first day of the trial she had a copy of the book Meditations, a philosophy text by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, under her arm.

In a statement, Watson’s family said: “The one person Ryan trusted the most is the person who took his life in such a violent way. Alice is in prison where she belongs but no sentence is going to be long enough for what she has taken from us and Ryan. He will never get to live his life and fulfil his dreams.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/02/philosophy-student-alice-wood-jailed-18-years-running-over-fiance-car

Alice Wood CCTV Video

CCTV footage shows Alice Wood and fiancé before fatal crash
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Scarlet Blake Murders Jorge Martin Carreno

Scarlet Blake is a killer from Oxford England who was convicted of the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno

According to court documents Scarlet Blake started her killing spree by dissecting a cat live on the internet. However that was not enough for Blake who wanted to know what it was like to kill someone

Scarlet Blake would lead the victim Jorge Martin Carreno, who she did not know, to a riverbank before she would strike him in the head with an empty vodka bottle before strangling him and then pushing him into a river and watched him drown

Scarlet Blake would be arrested, convicted and will face sentencing next week where she faces a life sentence

Scarlet Blake News

A woman who livestreamed herself killing, dissecting and blending the body of a cat before brutally attacking a man and leaving him to drown to death in a river months later has been convicted of murder.

Scarlet Blake, 26, targeted Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021.

She led him to a secluded riverbank where he was hit on the back of the head with a vodka bottle, strangled and then pushed into the River Cherwell where he drowned, Oxford crown court heard.

Blake denied murder but was convicted on Friday. She showed no emotion as the verdict was returned.

Prosecutors said Blake, who is transgender, killed the BMW worker, who was a stranger to her, because she had a “fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone”.

The murder came four months after Blake livestreamed the horrific killing of a cat. Blake told the family pet: “Here we go, my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like shit. I can’t wait to put through the blender.”

After the killing, Blake dissected the animal, removed its fur and skin, and placed its body in a blender.

During the video, the New Order song True Faith played in the background, which the court heard was in homage to a Netflix documentary called Don’t F**k with Cats about a man who killed felines and murdered a human.

Blake “boasted” about the killing to others and told of “her desire to open up a person like her ‘little cat friend’”.

During the trial, the court heard Carreno had been out with co-workers in Oxford city centre and was trying to get home when Blake found him sitting in the street.

She was seen on CCTV walking the streets of Oxford wearing a heavy military-style hooded jacket, face mask and carrying a rucksack, looking for a victim.

Prosecutors suggested she was carrying a “murder kit” in her rucksack, including a garotte and leopard-print dressing gown cord, which she rejected. Giving evidence, Blake denied she was looking for a victim and instead had gone for a walk because she could not sleep.

She said she walked with Carreno to an area called Parson’s Pleasure at the riverside and left him there alive to go home, telling the jury she did not know how he died.

Suggestions that Carreno may have killed himself were rejected by his friends and by a Home Office pathologist who said he did not believe the Spanish national died accidentally.

Prosecutors said Blake had an “extreme interest in death and in harm” and got sexual gratification from violence and killings.

At one point, jurors were shown a disturbing video of Blake consensually tying a ligature around her then partner’s neck from behind and pulling it tight until she appeared to fall unconscious.

The trial heard that Blake, who was previously known as Alice Wang, came to the UK from China aged nine, and came out to her parents as transgender at the age of 12.

She said it had “caused a large emotional rift” and made her parents unhappy.

The court also heard that Blake had developed an online relationship with Ashlynn Bell, another trans woman, in the US.

The court heard Blake confessed to her former partner Bell, who lives in the US and told jurors she is also sexually stimulated by violence, that she had killed Carreno with a homemade garotte before throwing his body in the water.

Blake told jurors she had made up the details of the killing because Bell wanted her to kill someone after making her livestream the killing of the cat.

“I wasn’t interested or willing … she was wanting to make me do this thing and I was … at a limit after going through the killing of the cat.”

During her evidence, Blake claimed she had a fragmented personality, which included being a cat, and miaowed at the jury to show how she would interact with friends.

“With friends I know quite well who are aware of this part of me, I miaow at them in greeting,” she said.

Blake will be sentenced on Monday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/23/cat-killing-woman-guilty-murdering-man-oxford-scarlet-blake-jorge-martin-carreno

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Paris Mayo Murders Newborn

Paris Mayo was a fifteen year old teen killer who would murder her newborn son

According to court documents fifteen year old Paris Mayo would give birth to her son in her parents living room while they slept. Paris would brutally attack the newborn leaving it with a crushed skull and would stuff cotton down his throat to ensure that the newborn would die. Paris would then throw the newborn into a trash bag

Paris Mayo would later tell authorities that she did not know that she was pregnant and was surprised when the labor began

Paris Mayo would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to a minimum of twelve years in prison

Paris Mayo Case

A woman has been detained for a minimum of 12 years for murdering her newborn baby when she was 15 to prevent her family discovering she had been pregnant.

Paris Mayo, now 19, gave birth to her son, Stanley, alone and in silence in the living room of her home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, while her parents and brother slept upstairs.

She then assaulted the baby so violently that he suffered fractures to his skull and brain damage, and when he later showed signs of life Mayo stuffed cotton wool balls into his mouth to suffocate him before putting his body into a bin bag.

Paris Mayo claimed she did not know she was pregnant until minutes before her child was born and denied murder, claiming Stanley hit his head when he “fell out” of her as she gave birth standing up.

She said that when she finally realised she was pregnant, she did not call for help despite suffering terrible labour pain because she was worried her mother would be disappointed and her father angry.

The prosecution argued she must have known she was pregnant and planned to kill the child to prevent her family finding out. A jury found Mayo guilty of murder after a five-week trial at Worcester crown court.

Describing it as a “sad and troubling case”, the trial judge, Mr Justice Garnham, said Stanley suffered “serious and appalling injuries” at the hands of someone he should have been able to trust: his mother.

The judge said Paris Mayo was immature and insecure when she became pregnant aged 14. She had begun to have sex when she was 13 to try to make boys like her and had unprotected sex with her child’s father because he did not like wearing condoms.

The judge said Mayo “steadfastly maintained” she was not pregnant despite changes to her body and the “overwhelming likelihood” she felt her child moving inside her. He said he accepted this was not a “campaign of deceit” but a reality she feared she and her family would not be able to handle. “You simply didn’t want to acknowledge the truth. You refused to face what was becoming obvious,” he told her.

Garnham said it was “astonishing” that Mayo did not cry out when she gave birth because she did not want to disturb her parents sleeping upstairs. He accepted her experience must have been frightening, traumatic, painful and overwhelming.

The judge said as soon as her child was born she decided she could not allow him to live. He could not say for sure how she had initially attacked him but believed she may have crushed his head beneath her foot.

Paris Mayo’s child remained alive for at least an hour, the judge said, but then: “You decided you had to finish Stanley off,” and stuffed cotton wool balls down his throat. “Killing your baby son was a truly dreadful thing to do,” he said.

The judge accepted Mayo had not planned it for a long time but said on the evening of the murder she knew what was happening.

“You knew you were pregnant and about to give birth about an hour before you did so. You could have asked your mother for help or rung the emergency services. I am driven to the conclusion you had decided you would have to kill your baby.”

The judge said aggravating factors included the baby’s vulnerability and Mayo’s abuse of trust as his mother. He said the mitigating features included the lack of support for her, and he flagged up the reaction the case would attract in the press and social media and the reception she would get both in detention and when she was released. “This will be a life sentence to you in every sense,” he said.

Bernard Richmond KC, for Mayo, told the court Mayo refused to face up to her pregnancy until she went into labour. “Then the full impact of what was happening hit her like a tsunami. She was in pain, she was frightened.”

The barrister claimed the notion that her parents were available to help was “misplaced”. Her father was very ill and before getting sick was difficult and could be cruel. Her mother had moved back in with him to nurse him and was under huge pressure. “She [Mayo] did not feel able to call her parents,” Richmond said.

He said neither her parents, nor her teachers at school had noticed what was going on. “In the midst of this, there was a 15-year-old girl who was vulnerable, who was abused, who was not supported.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/26/teenager-murdered-newborn-son-herefordshire-jailed-paris-mayo

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