Alfie Lewis murder: Watch boy convicted of murder running from scene after stabbing Alfie Lewis to death from cross country running Watch Video

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An “outwardly normal” 15-year-old boy with a “worrying interest in knives” who stabbed another teenager through the heart on the way home from school has been detained for life with a minimum term of 13 years.<br/>Alfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed to death “in full view” of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of Leeds last November.<br/><br/>Bardia Shojaeifard, who was 14 at the time, was found guilty of murdering Alfie by a Leeds Crown Court jury in April.<br/><br/>He had admitted stabbing Alfie with a 13cm-long kitchen knife he had taken from home, but denied murder, claiming he was scared for his life when he pulled out the weapon.<br/><br/>Shojaeifard can be named publicly for the first time after the judge, Mr Justice Cotter, lifted reporting restrictions preventing him from being identified.<br/><br/>Story:<br/>https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/boy-who-stabbed-15-year-old-alfie-lewis-on-way-home-from-yorkshire-school-detained-for-life-4675058<br/><br/>Video: WYP