Overview
- Lee Taylor, who was sentenced Wednesday at Bradford Crown Court, received life with a 21-year minimum, reduced by 228 days already served on remand.
- Prosecutors said he followed Paris Kendall into an alley beside Moorside Community Primary School on August 13 and struck her head with a rock at least three times, with CCTV later showing him leaving in bloodstained clothes.
- Police recovered a bloodstained rock and a half-brick, and Taylor changed clothes after fleeing before first confessing to others and then telling officers he could not remember the attack.
- The court heard he had 50 previous convictions for more than 100 offences, had slashed a man he suspected was a rival in April 2025, and was released from a short prison term six days before the killing.
- He initially denied murder, later pleaded guilty a week before trial, and a jury convicted him of wounding over the earlier knife attack, as family statements described a devastating loss and the judge praised civilian courage.