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Nikki Allan LIVE: David Boyd is sentenced for killing of Sunderland schoolgirl

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  • David Boyd, 55, was convicted earlier this month of murdering Nikki Allan in 1992 by luring her to a derelict warehouse in Sunderland’s East End, beating her with a brick and stabbing her 37 times in the chest.
  • He will be sentenced today at Newcastle Crown Court where the court will hear victims’ statements from Nikki’s campaigning mother, Sharon Henderson, and George Heron, who was prosecuted for murder in 1993 and cleared.
  • Follow live updates from the courtroom from our court reporter Bruce Unwin.

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