Teen faces life in jail for torturing and dismembering boy

A TEENAGER was facing life in jail last night for torturing, strangling and dismembering a British schoolboy.

Teen faces life in jail for torturing and dismembering boy

Matthew Welsh, 19, led his girlfriend and his best friend into a vicious assault on 14-year-old Adam Morrell in which he was punched, kicked and stamped on before being burned with boiling water mixed with sugar.

The young boy, whom Welsh had been teaching to fight after he complained of being bullied at school, was left with more than 280 injuries to his body following the three-hour attack.

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