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Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter A schoolboy who pursued his ex-girlfriend before killing her in a frenzied knife attack has been unmasked, despite being under 18. Mr Justice Hilliard, the trial judge, concluded that Logan MacPhail, who is now 17 but was 16 at the time of the murder, should be identified in the public interest, removing an order to protect minors. Holly Newton, 15, had complained about MacPhail's obsessive behaviour just hours before he stabbed her repeatedly in an alleyway.
She sustained 36 injuries in less than a minute on January 27, last year, the Mirror reports. MacPhail travelled an hour and a half from his school in Gateshead, 25 miles away, to follow Holly when she left Queen Elizabeth High School in Hexham, Northumberland, at 3.30pm.
MacPhail was caught on CCTV, face hidden in a scarf, speaking to Holly at a bus stop just moments before killing her. (Image: Northumbria Police) The Crown Prosecution Service also published images showing him boarding a bus from his hometown of Gateshead to Hexham on the day of the murder. He was dressed in a black puffa jacket, black hat, tracksuit pants, and trainers, with the 6in knife in a bag on his back.
He boards at 1.41pm and is observed looking about as he exits the No 10 bus from the MetroCentre in Hexham bus station, arriving at 3.13pm.
He stays outside Holly's school till she leaves at 3.30pm with another boy. He follows her for almost an hour before asking to talk with her in a nearby alley.
He then delivered the blows in an alley in the Priestpopple area. (Image: Northumbria Police) One fatally entered her back, penetrating her chest and..
. Jeremy Armstrong , https://www.dailyrecord.
co.uk/authors/william-gaddi/.
