Holly Newton 15 years old, stabbed to death: too good a girl for a world too bad

This is the dramatic story of Holly Newton a 15-year-old girl stabbed to death on January 27 on her way home from school.

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Holly Newton was a little girl with a life ahead of her, she loved to dance, she was cheerful, bright and always smiling. She died in the worst way, after being stabbed in the center of Hexham , an English town in Northumberland.

The culprit of this senseless crime is a 16 year old boy, arrested by the police and charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon. He is now under custody awaiting an appearance in NewCastle Court.

The girl that day was in the company of fiance, a 16-year-old boy who did everything to protect her and now, also stabbed, is in hospital with serious injuries.

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credit: Holly's dad

An entire city under shock

The mayor of the city, Derek Kennedy he expressed his solidarity with the family, as did all the students of the Queen Elizabeth Hight School, who remember their mate as a lovely, quiet, conscientious and kind girl.

The dynamics of the story are not yet entirely clear. There Northumbia Police has opened an investigation to ascertain the motive and the dynamics that led to this tragic epilogue.

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credit: Newcastle Chronicle image

What's left is it heartbreak and pain of a family that lost their daughter on an ordinary day and for no logical reason, in the most horrific way. The mother's words at the girl's funeral moved everyone present "She was too good for this world".

And it's true, what's happening to this world? What is happening to very young boys who use weapons to vent their anger, who kill so easily, who go around armed. Where did the quarrels between friends go, the screams that turned into hugs after 5 minutes. There is too much violence in the world and maybe it's time to go back to giving importance to lost values ​​again.