Teen gets life for schoolboy’s murder

THE British schoolboy killer who knifed 14-year-old Luke Walmsley to death outside a classroom in front of a crowd of horrified pupils was detained for life yesterday.

Alan Pennell, a 16-year-old bully with a history of violence, stabbed the younger boy through the heart at Birkbeck Secondary School in North Somercotes, Lincolnshire.

A day after he was found guilty of murdering Luke by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court, it was recommended that he serve a minimum of 12 years.