The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found not guilty after claiming he had accidentally plunged a knife into the schoolgirl's chest while acting 'like I was fencing'.

A teenage boy, aged 16, has been found not guilty by a jury at Bristol Crown Court of the murder and manslaughter of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe who died after being stabbed.

A 16-year-old boy has been found not guilty of the murder and manslaughter of Aria Thorpe, nine, who was found with a knife wound to her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare