crimesandcuriosities:On 3rd January, 2021, a 13-year-old schoolboy named Oliver Stephens was st
crimesandcuriosities:On 3rd January, 2021, a 13-year-old schoolboy named Oliver Stephens was stabbed to death in a field after his girlfriend posted a £154 bounty on Snapchat.Oliver (pictured top) - more affectionate known as “Olly” by friends and family - had apparently become angry and upset after finding out his girlfriend had sent sexually explicit images of herself to other boys on Snapchat. Oliver confronted her about this and a verbal altercation broke out between them. His girlfriend then took to Snapchat and offered £154 to anybody willing to “teach him a lesson”. A teenage boy accepted her offer. Olly was then lured into a field in his home town of Reading, UK, and stabbed in the back of the neck. He was killed just 250 yards away from the safety of his own home, as shown in the photograph above. After the news broke of Oliver’s tragic death, another Snapchat user who knew both Oliver and his girlfriend messaged her to say “you’re responsible for what happened and you’re fucking sick for it”. Responding to this, she said “I told the guy to rob him, I did not say M [murder] him”, followed with a laughing face emoji - indicating a total lack of remorse or concern.In total, four boys and one girl - all aged between just 13 and 14 years old - were arrested for their involvement. Due to age of the perpetrators involved, they are unable to be identified in accordance with UK law. In September 2021, two 14-year-old boys were sentenced to 12 and 13 years each in a young offenders’ institution. The female responsible for arranging the stabbing was given a sentence of 3 years and 2 months, but this was later deemed too lenient and increased to 5 years. A statement has since been released by Olly’s heartbroken family:“Oliver was an enigma, having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance he became a challenge we never shied away from… He could get his own way with a wry smile and a cheeky grin… He always stood his ground and fought for the underdog while having an amazing depth of love, warmth and wit.” -- source link