Merseyside Police at the scene on Whitefield Drive, Kirkby (Image: Liverpool ECHO)

A 15-year-old boy has been put behind bars for 13 years after stabbing another teenager 11 times. The victim's girlfriend, aged only 14, was also knifed in the chest during the incident on Whitefield Drive in Kirkby .

The altercation, on the evening of April 30 this year, was said to have come in retaliation for an earlier confrontation, which led to one of the defendant's friends suffering a head injury after being struck with a metal pole. He was found guilty of attempted murder following a trial and returned to Liverpool Crown Court to be sentenced this afternoon, Wednesday.

Jurors were previously played CCTV footage of the incident, which showed the defendant and a friend approaching the two vic

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