A 16-year-old is on trial accused of stabbing nine-year-old Aria Thorpe to death in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, in December. The court hears that Thorpe died after being stabbed once through the heart at an address in the seaside town. According to testimony reported by multiple outlets, the teenager allegedly used a search engine minutes after the stabbing to look up the phrase “what happens if you kill.”
The reports describe the alleged sequence of events leading to Thorpe’s death and reference the timing of the search as evidence the prosecution is putting forward. The coverage also notes that the matter is being heard in court, with jurors being told the details of the fatal injury and the location of the incident.
The articles do not indicate the plea or the final outcome of the case. The defendant is described in the reports as accused, and the information presented relates to what the court has heard so far in the trial.
