A teenager has been jailed for the murder of Liverpool schoolgirl Ava White.
The 15-year-old boy stabbed Ava in the neck during a row over a Snapchat video at the switch-on of the city’s Christmas lights on November 25 last year.
He was convicted of the 12-year-old’s murder in May and handed a minimum prison term of 13 years at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday for her death.
In her victim personal statement, Ava’s mother Leanne White spoke poignantly of her profound loss.
She said: “The moment Ava died is now, yesterday, tomorrow and forever.
“It is the past, the present and the future. It was not just one finite horrific moment in time that happened last whenever, it is not just the moment, hour, and the second our lives became permanently divided into before and after.
“November last year the light of my life was dimmed forever. She was taken in such cruel and tragic circumstances.”
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