Two North Yorkshire schoolboys were today beginning six-year sentences after they tried to kill their friend in a sustained knife attack.

Judge Arthur Myerson, QC, locked up Daniel Gill, aged 14, and Robert Fuller, aged 15, for the attempted murder of Ashley Murray when he was just 13.

He branded them a "serious risk to the public".

Today, after the judge lifted a court order banning their identification, we can name for the first time the two boys who took Ashley to the bottom of Birk Crag, Harrogate, late on January 17 and between them gave him 18 knife wounds, 11 to the head. Then they left him for dead.

Ashley was at Hull Crown Court to hear Judge Myerson describe how his former friends had behavioural problems.

"They make each of you a serious risk, in my view, to the public at this time," he told Fuller, of Harlow Park Drive, and Gill, of Beckwith Avenue, both Harrogate.

Ashley's parents welcomed the sentence, saying they hoped the book could now be closed on the matter.

They said that considering the circumstances their son's recovery was remarkable.

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