“ didn’t deserve his fate no matter what he might have said or done, no child deserves such a callous fate.”Īmanda Stephens said she was unable to understand why none of the teenagers present at the scene of the crime had stepped in to help their son. He said: “I had one job as a father, to protect my children, and I failed miserably – I will never forgive myself”. He described the “utterly horrific” moment he was told his son’s body was now forensic evidence, and that he would no longer be able to hold him or touch him. “Olly trusted people too much, it was part of his makeup, it was part of his autism – it was why we loved him.” Stuart Stephens told Reading crown court: “We are strong enough to deal with most problems thrown our way but this has completely broken us.” Sentencing the three, Judge Heather Norton said: “What you did was utterly cruel and utterly pointless, you have taken one life and you have damaged your own futures and you have caused so much pain to so many people.”
Olly, as he was known, and who had autism, was lured to a field in Emmer Green, Reading, by the girl on 3 January this year, where he was knifed to death by two of his former friends, whom he had met only online and who were lying in wait. None of the defendants can be named because of their age. A 14-year-old girl, who set up the “ambush”, and who had admitted manslaughter and perverting the course of justice, was sentenced to three years and two months in a young offender institution. Two 14-year-old boys, convicted of Olly’s murder, were sentenced to 13 years and 12 years respectively in a young offender institution.
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