Teenager who stabbed schoolboy to death in random attack unmasked by judge

The 15-year-old who stabbed Leo Ross to death in a random attack as the schoolboy walked home can now be named as Kian Moulton.

Leo, 12, was walking through Shire Country Park in the Hall Green area of Birmingham when the yob launched the ‘cowardly’ attack last January.

After inflicting a single fatal wound to Leo’s stomach, Moulton then loitered around to watch the aftermath so he could ‘derive maximum enjoyment’ from his actions.

He even chatted with police at the scene passing himself off as a potential witness while yards away paramedics desperately tried to save the schoolboy’s life.

Moulton was jailed for life earlier this week and ordered to serve a minimum term of 13 years before he can be considered for release.

Judge Mr Justice Choudhury granted an application from the media for the teenager to be named because of public interest in the case.

The senior judge said the public would want to know ‘what could have led a child to commit such acts’.

Sentencing Moulton, he said: ‘You are still a child – you were 14 years old at the time of these offences.

‘Most right-thinking people would struggle to comprehend what you did over the course of just three days.’

The teen spent the days leading up to Leo’s senseless killing attacking lone elderly women in the same park.

Two days before, he shoved an 82-year-old woman into a river and told her: ‘I tried to drown you but now I’m going to kill you.’

He then beat her with her own walking stick, leaving her with a broken nose, black eyes, and fractures to a rib and two of her fingers, which required surgery.

The yob went on to target a 72-year-old woman the following day, causing her to bleed ‘profusely’ from a head wound.

While on his bike, he pushed or struck her from behind then apologised to her before he fled the area, leaving her on the ground unconscious and bleeding from a head wound.

She suffered broken ribs in the attack and had to have hip replacement surgery.

The third attack, which happened within half an hour before he stabbed Leo to death, saw a 79-year-old woman pushed to the ground from behind.

He ‘turned and smiled’ at the woman after the attack.

Mr Justice Choudhury told the boy he deliberately chose people who were ‘weaker and smaller’ than him to attack.

He said: ‘What you did in the park last January is horrific and shocking. You went around the park looking for people to hurt.

‘You chose people who were weaker and smaller than you. I hope you realise how cowardly your actions were.’

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