Eleanor Neale

And before he let the jury go, the lawyer said one last thing, and that was that witnessing a murder is not equal to committing a murder.

And then the jury went off and deliberated.

But it seemed that the jury felt that both boys were just as bad as each other, because when they returned, they found both boy A and boy B guilty of the murder of Anna Creasle.

Boy A was also found guilty of aggravated sexual assault.

And for that, he was actually put on the sex offenders register.

And when this verdict was read out in the court that both boys were guilty, boy A started crying and boy B just put his head in his hands.

Boy B's father, on the other hand, was not taking it quite so...

quietly, shall we say.

He jumped up out of his seat in that courtroom and started screaming at everyone saying, you bunch of scumbags, you bunch of pricks.

As his son was led out of the courtroom, now a convicted murderer, Boy B's father stood there and did a slow sarcastic clap.

He sarcastically commended the judge and the jury for their excellent work on sentencing an innocent boy.

Well, that was what his father said.

He said he was an innocent boy.

So the jury explained to the court their reasoning for finding Boy B guilty of murder rather than going for the alternative manslaughter plea.

And they said that he was the key factor in the successful completion of this murder.

Without Boy B's part in all of this, without him going to Anna's house, literally calling for her,

and then taking her to this abandoned building to Boy A, she wouldn't have been murdered.

And so the jury felt that that was a good enough reason to also charge him with the murder because if he wasn't there, it wouldn't have happened.

Boy A was sentenced to life in prison with a review after 12 years, which will happen when he is 26, I think.

Boy B was sentenced to 15 years in prison with a minimum of eight, so the earliest that he can get out is when he's 23.