{"id":423760,"date":"2026-02-13T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:55:10","slug":"should-teenagers-like-leo-ross-killer-kian-moulton-be-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423760\/","title":{"rendered":"Should teenagers like Leo Ross killer Kian Moulton be named?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Piers Von Berg, a senior lecturer in human rights law at Birmingham City University, said judges must carry out a &#8220;balancing exercise&#8221; between the potential harm to the child, and the harm to the public of not lifting restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said having a young person&#8217;s identity made public was &#8220;to all intents and purposes irreversible, in the world of the internet and social media&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he added that judges would also consider public concern, particularly around issues such as knife crime, and the desire to prevent misinformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, the Attorney General&#8217;s Office said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm21080x1k6o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had received multiple requests for Moulton&#8217;s sentence to be reviewed<\/a> under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson added those requests would be considered to see if the minimum term could be increased.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Piers Von Berg, a senior lecturer in human rights law at Birmingham City University, said judges must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423761,"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-423760","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\/423760","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=423760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}