New Year's Eve reveller guilty of knife murder of schoolboy watching midnight fireworks display

A New Year's Eve reveller has been found guilty of the murder of a schoolboy who was stabbed to death while watching a fireworks display in London. Areece Lloyd-Hall, now 18, was convicted at the Old Bailey on Wednesday of fatally stabbing 16-year-old Harry Pitman in the neck after a fight broke out between two groups of teenagers. Lloyd-Hall attacked the youngster in front of revellers who had gathered on London's Primrose Hill to watch fireworks over the River Thames on December 31, 2023. The defendant, of west Kilburn, London, denied Harry's murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter, claiming he had been acting in self-defence after Harry punched him.