Murder trial Youth claims stabbing of Aria was 'unfortunate accident'

A TEENAGE boy had less than three and a half hours’ sleep the night before he stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death, a court heard.

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The now 16-year-old - described as a “heavy phone user” - stabbed Aria Thorpe once in the chest at a house in Lime Close, Weston-super-Mare, in December last year.

After fleeing the property, he walked to a nearby railway station where he told young people gathered there that he had stabbed a child, Bristol Crown Court heard.

“You'll see it on the news later,” he told them. I was playing around with a knife. (She) walked into the knife. I accidentally stabbed her with a really big knife.”

He told one of the group, who he knew: “Yo (name) I’m a murderer. I accidentally killed someone.”

While one of them distracted the teenager, another was able to ring police and alert them to what the defendant was saying.

One of the children later told police: “He said he had done something really bad and did not know what to do. He asked if he could search something on Google. He then said, ‘I'm done for. Why have I done this.’”