Court finds teenager guilty of schoolboy murder

A teenager was today convicted of murdering a 14-year-old schoolboy who was savagely beaten before being strangled and his body chopped into pieces.

Matthew Welsh, 19, was the dominant figure in a gang of three friends who tortured schoolboy Adam Morrell for up to three hours.

His girlfriend, 17-year-old Sarah Morris, was found guilty of deliberately assaulting the youngster but cleared of his murder, which was carried out in the days following the attack.

Another teenager, Daniel Biggs, 19, was cleared by the jury at Nottingham Crown Court of murder or any part in the sustained assault.