Name of 15-year-old boy who fatally stabbed teenager on his way home from school

Alfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed to death “in full view” of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of ​​Leeds.

A 'normal-looking' 15-year-old boy with a 'disturbing interest in knives' who stabbed another teenager in the heart while walking home from school has been named for the first time as Bardia Shojaeifard.

Alfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed to death “in full view” of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of ​​Leeds last November.

Shojaeifard, who was 14 at the time, was found guilty of Alfie's murder by a jury at Leeds Crown Court in April.

He had admitted stabbing Alfie with a 13cm-long kitchen knife he had brought from home, but denied murder, saying he had feared for his life when he pulled out the weapon.

Shojaeifard can be named publicly for the first time after the judge, Mr Justice Cotter, lifted reporting restrictions preventing his identification on Friday.

He said lifting the defendant’s anonymity would contribute to the “vitally important debate about the scourge of knife crime, particularly among young people”.

Judge Cotter said the public would wonder how a young boy “from a loving and supportive family” could commit such an “extraordinary” crime “without warning or any warning signs, apart from a few photos of knives on his phone.”

Shojaeifard will be sentenced later on Friday.