Friends helped police catch killer after Gateshead stabbing
Detective work by a group of boys who saw their friend Tomasz Oleszak get fatally stabbed helped police quickly catch his teenage killer.
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Detective work by a group of boys who saw their friend Tomasz Oleszak get fatally stabbed helped police quickly catch his teenage killer.
Leighton Amies, 15, shouted, 'I've wetted your boy' at a gang after he knifed Tomasz Oleszak, 14, deep in the chest following a minor dispute at a nature park in Gateshead last October.
Leighton Amies, 15, bragged about fatally stabbing Tomasz Oleszak, 14, in a Gateshead park in October, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
"You took the knife to the scene, intending to have it available to use as a weapon, which you then did," the judge tells Amies.
A teenager who murdered a 14-year-old with a steak knife in Gateshead last October has been sentenced to 12 years in jail.