Police at the scene on Whitefield Drive (Image: Liverpool Echo)

A 14-year-old girl "didn't realise" she had been stabbed as her boyfriend was knifed 11 times. A 15-year-old boy was this week handed 13 years behind bars over the incident, which occurred at a bus stop on Whitefield Drive in Kirkby on the evening of April 30 this year.

The atack was said to have come in retaliation for an earlier confrontation, which led to one of the defendant's friends suffering a head injury after being struck with a metal pole. The boy was found guilty of attempted murder following a trial and returned to Liverpool Crown Court to be sentenced on Wednesday.

Arthur Gibson, prosecuting, read a statement to the court on behalf of the girl during Wednesday's hearing, saying: "At first, I didn't even r

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