A 14 year old boy has been charged with murdering a 12-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in Liverpool.
Ava White was out with friends in the city centre when she was attacked on Thursday and died shortly afterwards.
She was stabbed shortly after the city’s Christmas lights switch-on at about at 20:40 GMT.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due at Merseyside Youth Remand Court later accused of murder and possession of a bladed article.
Three other boys, aged between 13 and 15, were also arrested and have been conditionally bailed as the investigation continues.
Merseyside Police said officers found Ava collapsed on the ground with “catastrophic injuries” in Church Alley.
She had been involved in a “verbal argument” which “escalated to an assault on her involving a knife”.
Ava was taken to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital after paramedics arrived but died of her injuries upon arrival.
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