There is fresh agony today for the family of a nine-year-old girl who died after being fatally stabbed by a teenage boy, after the Attorney General refused to refer the case to the Court of Appeal despite acknowledging a ‘misdirection’ of the jury.
Aria Thorpe died after being stabbed in her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on December 15 last year.
A 15-year-old boy, now 16, admitted to holding the knife when Aria sustained her fatal injuries but claimed in court it had been an accident.
After stabbing the nine-year-old, he fled the scene without calling for help and travelled
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