A teenage boy has been found not guilty of stabbing nine-year-old Aria Thorpe to death.
A jury at Bristol Crown Court found the 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, not guilty of both murder and manslaughter earlier today.
The schoolgirl died after being stabbed in her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on December 15 last year.
After the incident, the boy left Aria’s home and went to a nearby railway station – where he told a group of children that her death was an ‘accident’.
He later told the jury at Bristol Crown Court that he had picked up
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