Woodley, 18, was stabbed to death in Sunderland group attack but parents deny boys who kicked him are murderers

The mother of one of 10 boys sentenced for the joint-enterprise murder of Jack Woodley has said she is “devastated” as her son had “not murdered anyone”.

A judge handed out 10 life sentences ranging from eight to 17 years at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday morning for the murder of 18-year-old Woodley, who died a day after an unprovoked attack by the group of boys in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, last October.

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