Overview
- Moulton received a life sentence with a 13-year minimum at Birmingham Crown Court on 10 February and will be eligible for parole consideration at 27.
- The Attorney General’s Office said it has received multiple requests under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and will consider whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal within 28 days.
- Police say Leo Ross, 12, was stabbed at random as he walked home through Hall Green, Birmingham, on 21 January 2025, with no known connection to his attacker.
- Prosecutors detailed earlier assaults on three elderly women in the same area, including an 82-year-old pushed into a river and struck with her own walking pole.
- CCTV and body‑worn camera footage show Moulton lingering at the scene, falsely claiming to be a witness, before investigators found he had hidden the knife in nearby bushes.