{"id":418099,"date":"2026-02-10T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418099\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:55:08","slug":"leo-ross-teen-who-murdered-12-year-old-schoolboy-in-birmingham-to-be-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418099\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Ross: Teen who murdered 12-year-old schoolboy in Birmingham to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Leo Ross?published at 11:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have heard Leo Ross was described by his foster family as &#8220;funny, sweet and had not one aggressive bone in his body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a pupil at Christ Church C of E Secondary Academy in the Yardley Wood area of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His birth mother, Rachel Fisher, said her son &#8220;didn&#8217;t have a bad bone in his body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My baby&#8217;s life was stolen for no reason whatsoever, my life will never be the same again without him,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leo was described by Tim Boyes, the acting school head at the time, as &#8220;a quirky, lovable, bright, unusual little boy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boyes also said: &#8220;For a 12-year-old, he was quite young and he had a naivety and simplicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike many boys his age who were into football, he said Leo was &#8220;passionate about fossils&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diane Henson, chief executive of Leo&#8217;s school, described him as a &#8220;lovely and bright member of the school community&#8221;, adding he had many friends who adored him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wall painted blue with the image of a boy with short hair at one end and the word Leo at the other\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b55e7277-7279-4c69-a559-1193f8d00bf2.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"801\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who was Leo Ross?published at 11:43 GMT 11:43 GMT We have heard Leo Ross was described by his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-418099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}