The boy, who attended the Yardley Wood school, was fatally stabbed in Scribers Lane at around 3pm yesterday, Tuesday, January 21. A 14-year-old boy was later arrested on suspicion of murder.

Chief Superintendent Richard North speaks to the media at the scene near Scribers Lane in the Hall Green area of Birmingham where a 12-year-old boy died following a stabbing on Tuesday afternoon. The policing commander for Birmingham,

The family of a 12-year-old schoolboy killed on his walk home from school have paid tribute to the “funny, sweet” boy who had “not one aggressive bone in his body”. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the schoolboy was stabbed to death in front of traumatised classmates in a suburb of Birmingham.