Boy detained for murder of Ian Kirwan who told teen off at supermarket

A 15-year-old lad has been fixed a beingness condemnation and detained for astatine slightest 14 years for murdering a shopper extracurricular a Worcestershire supermarket.

Ian Kirwan, 53 from Redditch, was stabbed successful the bosom extracurricular the town's Asda connected 8 March aft telling a radical of boys to halt messing around.

The teen was successful municipality to rob and woody drugs, jurors astatine Birmingham Crown Court heard.

The execution was "so utterly senseless it defies description," said the judge.

"It is besides a stark reminder if nine were to request 1 of the information of young radical carrying knives with them arsenic a substance of routine," added Mr Justice Fraser.