Teenager convicted of murdering software engineer after row at Asda supermarket

A 15-year-old's been convicted of murdering a man at an Asda in Worcestershire.

Ian Kirwan - who was 53 - was stabbed in the chest in the supermarket in Redditch in March during a minute long attack after confronting a gang.

Birmingham Crown Court heard the victim was unfortunate and in the "wrong place at the wrong time".

The teenager - who we can't name because of his age - will be sentenced next month.

Three other teenagers - two aged 14 and one aged 16 - were cleared of murder and manslaughter but jurors found them guilty of violent disorder.

A fifth, aged 16, was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and violent disorder, having claimed he was not involved in the fatal confrontation and could not have predicted it.

A ten-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court was told Mr Kirwan, an artificial intelligence engineer who worked at Jaguar Land Rover's Coventry headquarters, was an "unfortunate member of the public in the wrong place at the wrong time".

All those convicted will be sentenced at the same court on 15 February.