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Sept 2023
An anti-knife crime campaigner has called for murderers to be named regardless of age following the conviction of a Harrogate teenager.
Dylan Cranfield, 17, was found guilty of murdering Seb Mitchell, 17, at Leeds Crown Court last week.
Cranfield, who was 16 at the time of the incidentm stabbed Harrogate Grammar School pupil Seb to death with a kitchen knife after a row over a broken mirror at a property on Claro Road.
Cranfield was granted anonymity until the outcome of the trial, when Judge Guy Kearl, the Recorder of Leeds, lifted reporting restrictions on the media.
Seb Mitchell
Judge Kearl said he hoped it would serve as a warning to other young people about the dangers of knives.
But Theresa Cave, founder of the anti-knife crime Chris Cave Foundation, said those convicted of murder should be named regardless of how old they are.
Ms Cave, who is from Redcar, founded the charity in 2005 after her son Chris was stabbed to death two years prior.
She said:
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