UK Teen charged with Murder Enjoyed inflicting Pain

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A 14 yr old teenage killer who murdered a 12-year-old boy in Birmingham "enjoyed hurting people" and had a history of targeting vulnerable victims.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/leo-ross-kill ... 51320.html

The now 15-year-old, who pleaded guilty to murder at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, fatally stabbed Leo Ross in the stomach as he made his way home from school in Yardley Wood on 21 January last year.

Det Insp Joe Davenport said the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would attack victims for "violence sake".

"He enjoyed hurting people and he enjoyed watching the chaos that unfolded," he said.

In footage shared by West Midlands Police after the guilty plea, the youth is shown telling an officer how he had found Leo's body and told another member of the public to raise the alarm.

Before the murder, the teenager had attacked people in the same area on the 19, 20 and earlier on 21 January 2025 - the same day he killed Leo.

In the most serious incident, he beat an elderly woman with her own walking stick and then threw her in a river.

Davenport said the killer had targeted people "he knew he could beat and would easily overpower".

I noticed the murderer's identity is a closely guarded secret as he was only 14 when he committed his acts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eryxnqyyvo

My concern is much like the killers of toddler James Bolger (Jon Venables and Robert Thompson) he will serve < 10 years in Juvenile detention and get released back into an unsuspecting public.

My question is, should his identity be revealed? for public safety

I feel so bad for the victims. He should be charged as an adult.

In the UK he's tried as a 14yr old.
In blanking his face there's two troubling questions people are asking:
1. Does it hide his ethnicity (already some suspicions in a country gripped by anti-immigrant marches and accusations of ethnic crime wave).
2. Does he have a psychiatric condition? already speculation on social media he has either sadism, compulsive disorder or.....autism