Police at the scene on Pennine Drive in St Helens (Image: Liverpool Echo)

The parents of a 14-year-old boy who stabbed with a machete as he walked home from playing football say his "carefree childhood has been stolen". Declan Pendlebury and Robin Singh played video games and ate a takeaway together before donning balaclavas and heading out in an Uber.

They were then said to have hunted for potential targets from a "rival area" in a park before attacking their entirely innocent victim. While the knife-wielding thug has since absconded and remains at large, his accomplice has been locked up for nearly two decades after being found guilty of attempted murder .

Liverpool Crown Court heard this week that Pendlebury took a taxi to Singh's home on Fairclough Street in Burtonwood, Warrin

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