00:00The teenager who fatally stabbed 12-year-old Ava White in Liverpool City Centre can be named for the first time as he turns 18.
00:07Harry Gilbertson was 14 when he carried out the attack on the schoolgirl on November 25th, 2021.
00:13The following year, he was convicted of her murder after a trial and at 15, he was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years for her murder.
00:22Reporting restrictions preventing Gilbertson from being identified were kept in place until he turned 18.
00:28Ava's mother, Leanne White, said,
00:30I want the whole world to know who he was. I think Liverpool had the right to know who he was as well.
00:36Ms White, who set up a foundation in Ava's name that provides bleed control kits to premises, said she had mixed emotions about Gilbertson being named.
00:45Ava had been in the city centre with friends on the night the Christmas lights were being switched on.
00:50The group became involved in an argument with Gilbertson and friends who had been filming Snapchat videos of them.
00:56Gilbertson was carrying a knife and struck Ava once to the neck, causing her fatal injury before fleeing the scene, discarding the weapon and getting rid of his coat.
01:06He was seen on CCTV in a shop later that night taking a selfie and buying butter, which he said was for crumpets.
01:12Since Ava's death, Ms White, along with Ava's older sister Mia and her aunt June, have worked through the Ava White Foundation to provide hundreds of bleed control kits in the hope they can prevent other families from going through what they experienced.
01:27At least six lives have been saved thanks to the kits provided by the Ava White Foundation, Ms White said.
01:33The packs, which include gauze, trauma dressings and tourniquets, are delivered to schools, pubs and businesses, as well as training given on how to use them.
