Rosie knifeman pleads guilty

A 44-year-old man today pleaded guilty to stabbing a teenage girl with a kitchen knife as she sunbathed in a city centre this summer.

Inderjit Kainth of Handsworth, Birmingham, admitted stabbing to death 16-year-old Rosie Ross as she lay on a stone wall in Birmingham's Centenary Square.

She had been relaxing with a friend after a shopping trip, when, with no warning, Kainth came through the crowd clutching a kitchen knife and plunged it into her stomach.

As one witness ripped off the sleeve of his T-shirt and held it on the wound to try to stem the blood, three teenagers gave chase and wrestled to the ground.

Despite emergency surgery, Rosie, who was due to leave school that week and was looking forward to studying art at college, died five hours after the attack with her parents Sean and Karen by her bedside.