![]() ![]() “The effects of what you did will stay with you, your families and with Olly's family for ever.” “No one can say how your lives and how Olly's life may have turned out if you had not acted with such cruelty and such stupidity on 3 January,” Judge Norton added. Judge Heather Norton told the teenagers on Friday that the crime was “utterly cruel and utterly pointless”, adding: “You have taken one life and you have damaged your own futures and you have caused so much pain to so many people.” Mr Stephens added: “ didn't deserve his fate no matter what he might have said or done, no child deserves such a callous fate.” “He knew no sense of danger, he stood up for himself in a confrontation and was unable to back down, but was kind and loving.” “Olly trusted people too much, it was part of his make-up, it was part of his autism – it was why we loved him. “We are strong enough to deal with most problems thrown our way but this has completely broken us,” Olly’s father Stuart Stephens said. Speaking at the sentencing hearing, Olly’s parents told Reading Crown Court that they had been “completely broken” by their son’s murder. The three teenagers who were sentenced on Friday cannot be named because of their age. A 14-year-old girl, who admitted to manslaughter and perverting the course of justice over the killing, was also sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday to three years and two months in a young offenders institution.
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