A mum says she feels 'like a criminal' after lying to a school to take her children on holiday. The parent says she received a letter through from the school questioning the legitimacy of her kid's absences, reports Birmingham Live.
10.11.2022 - 16:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A man was allegedly murdered outside an Asda supermarket by five boys after he confronted them for ''messing about in the toilets", a court heard. Ian Kirwan, 53, died after he was stabbed in the heart on March 8 this year following a disturbance at the store on Jinnah Road, Redditch, the Mirror reports.
Five teenagers, aged 13 to 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stood trial at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday, November 9, where they all denied charges of murder, violent disorder and manslaughter.
The jury heard that one of the defendants, aged 14, admitted inflicting the fatal blow to the 53-year-old, who was software engineer for Jaguar Land Rover, and claims the defence of diminished responsibility. The teen also pleaded not guilty to a further offence of possession of a bladed article in public.
Prosecutor Benjamin Aina KC, who opened the case, told the court: "We are dealing with the evening of Tuesday, March 8, this year. Ian Kirwan left his home in Redditch with the intention of going to B&Q to buy a light switch. B&Q in Redditch is next to Asda. About 7.15pm in the evening Ian Kirwan went into Asda and entered the customer toilets.
"When he did so, he came into contact with a group of five young males who were messing about in the toilets. A little later he left the toilets, he left the Asda store and some of these boys were outside.
"He challenged them 'why were you messing about in the toilet?', words to that effect, and a scuffle broke out and during it Ian Kirwan was stabbed once to his heart with a knife and he died before getting to the hospital. He was just 53 years old at the time of his death."
The prosecutor informed the court that there is "no dispute" that the principal defendant, aged 14,
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