Seven of the 10 teenagers who were involved in killing 18-year-old Jack Woodley can now been named after an order protecting their identify was lifted. | ITV News Tyne Tees
They each brought challenges against their convictions to the Court of Appeal in London in July, but each of their bids were dismissed on Friday.
Owen Clayton, Grant Wheatley and Sonny Smith were all named as Jack Woodley's killers after turning 18. In a ruling on Friday, the four others were named despite still being youths. During the sentencing hearings in August 2022, Judge Rodney Jameson KC said the group had attacked Mr Woodley “solely for the excitement and pleasure of inflicting serious injury on an entirely innocent and randomly selected stranger”.The judge told the defendants the violence inflicted on Mr Woodley “though short-lived, was appalling” and all of them “played a part in causing Jack’s death”.
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