‘Get out of my face’ cry before stabbing

A TEENAGE boy said “Get out my face, lad” before fatally stabbing schoolgirl Ava White, a court has heard.

Yesterday, the jury in the trial of the 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, heard evidence from a friend who was with Ava during the incident in Liverpool city centre on the evening of November 25 last year.

In pre-recorded evidence, the girl said they had gone over to a group of boys and asked them to delete videos after noticing them filming.

She said 12-year-old Ava had tried to grab a phone from one of the boys to delete the video but “he wouldn’t have any of it”.

She said: “We didn’t know him and we didn’t want something of us on social media looking silly and acting silly.”

She said the boys, who included the defendant, walked away, so they followed them to a side street near the Primark store.

Ava and the defendant got “face to face” and Ava said “Delete the video”, the girl said.

She went on: “The next minute we just hear ‘Get out of my face, lad’, and I thought he pushed her, but he stabbed her.”

She added: “He was circling around us with a smirk on his face.”

The defendant, who appeared in court via video-link, denies murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter.

The case continues.