Family ‘ripped apart’ by boy’s murder

THE mother of a teenager stabbed to death in a school corridor broke down in tears yesterday as she said her family had been “ripped apart” by the tragedy.

Luke Walmsley, aged 14, was stabbed through the heart following an apparent row with a fellow pupil near the science laboratory at Birkbeck School in North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday morning.

A 15-year-old fellow pupil has been arrested and is being interviewed by detectives in the presence of a parent. Police had until midnight last night to question him.