Teen ‘doesn’t know why’ he fatally stabbed nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in chest

Aria Thorpe was stabbed once in the chest (Picture: Avon & Somerset police)

A teenage boy told a group of youths ‘you will see it on the news later’ after stabbing a nine-year-old girl to death, a court heard.

The 16-year-old confessed to stabbing Aria Thorpe once in the chest at a house in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, 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 t...