A “volatile and out-of-control” teenager who was 16 when he stabbed a man to death has been sentenced to at least 13 years.
CCTV footage captured the moment the youth, now aged 17, attacked Tom Ellis near Nuneaton’s Ropewalk Shopping Centre on 8 June.
A keen sportsman, Mr Ellis had been out with his girlfriend and others to celebrate his 25th birthday when he suffered a single blow to his chest with a huge hunting-style knife.
Immediately afterwards, the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked his mother to collect a takeaway he ordered before the stabbing, the court heard.
