Police have pictured and named the “cowardly” 15-year-old who murdered Leo Ross in a random knife attack after trying to drown an 82-year-old woman and attacking two other elderly victims.

Kian Moulton was sentenced to a minimum term of 13 years following his “campaign of violence” in Birmingham last year, but the case has sparked renewed calls for underage criminals to face harsher sentences.

Rachel Fisher, the mother of 12-year-old Leo, who was walking home from school when he was brutally killed last January, described the sentence as “a complete and utter joke” and suggested children like Kian “aren’t scared” of the jail time.

Mr Justice Choudhury said naming the 15-year-old would have some deterrent effect and described him as a “disturbed young man”.

Children under 18 don’t receive the same kind of life sentence for murder as adults in England and Wales, with judges instead setting a minimum term, after which the parole board decides whether it is safe to release them.

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Kian Moulton’s “horrific and shocking” attacks in Shire Country Park, Hall Green, involved pushing three pensioners to the ground before he fatally stabbed Leo on the afternoon of January 21, 2025.

The 15-year-old, who chose victims “least able to defend themselves”, chilling told one of them: “I tried to down you, but now I’m going to kill you” after pushing her into a river and hitting her with her own walking stick.

Birmingham Crown Court head that he had shown an “unusual and disturbing pattern of escalating violence against strangers”.

Speaking outside the court after the sentencing, Ms Fisher told the Press Association: “Thirteen years is a complete and utter joke, and it’s just going to keep on happening and keep on happening until something’s done about it.

“These kids aren’t scared. They aren’t scared of the sentence. They’re not worried.”