Good evening, these are the latest ECHO headlines on Thursday, May 19.
Ava White's alleged killer tells jury he had a knife 'because I thought I was big'
Ava White's alleged killer says he "didn't mean to" stab the schoolgirl and was "trying to get her away from me".
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Boy A, 14, denies the murder and manslaughter of 12-year-old Ava in Liverpool city centre. Today he told a jury he thought she was a boy, who might be armed, and feared she was going to "batter" him.
The teen, from South Liverpool, cannot be named for legal reasons. He was cross-examined by prosecutors at Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon about the stabbing, on November 25 last year.
Boy A said he picked up a flick knife, which he'd had for "quite a bit of time", from his friend Boy B's house earlier that day. He said he normally kept the blade there, or in his back garden.
Car burnt out as robbers leave HSBC with empty cash box
A car was found burnt out after two robbers stole an empty cash box from HSBC and attacked a security guard.
Merseyside Police rushed to HSBC on Prescot Road in Old Swan at around 2.10pm on Thursday, May 19, following reports a security guard was attacked. Once at the scene it was reported to officers a man assaulted the security guard and took a cash box from him.
The man then made off from the scene in a black Vauxhall Meriva car, driven by another man, along Pemberton Road, towards Wharncliffe Road.
The same car was reportedly set alight by the two men on Brookside in Croxteth a short time later and the pair made off in a silver van. Police found the cash box, which was empty when they stole it, next to the Vauxhall Meriva.
Map shows full route for Liverpool FC victory parade
A Liverpool FC victory parade will be making its way around the city next weekend, no matter what happens at the end of the season.
Mayor Joanne Anderson has invited the Reds to celebrate their triumphs in the FA and Carabao Cups with a parade on Sunday May 29. The team are still chasing a historic quadruple, with the Premier League set to conclude this weekend and Jurgen Klopp's men then taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League final on May 28.
The following day, regardless of how those results go, the team will head on an open top bus parade around the city to greet their adoring fans. The parade will also feature Liverpool FC Women who clinched the FA Women’s Championship trophy last month.
The 13.5km victory route, the same as the 2019 parade, will start at Allerton Maze in the south of the city. It will then travel north bound on Queens Drive towards the Fiveways roundabout (in Childwall) and on to the Rocket flyover.
