Harley Brown: Appeal to extend jail terms for teenage killers

Harley Brown died shortly after he was found with stab injuries on Kings Mill Lane in Huddersfield

An appeal has been made to extend the jail sentences of two teenagers who killed Harley Brown in Huddersfield in a "sustained and brutal" knife attack.

Zak Robinson, 17, and a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were jailed in December.

The judge described Harley's killing as a "senseless atrocity".

Robinson was sentenced to a minimum term of 14 years and six months, and the 15-year-old will spend at least 10 years and three months in prison.

The Attorney General's Office confirmed it had received a request to refer the sentences to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient scheme.

A statement read: "We have received a request to consider the sentences of Zak Robinson and a second individual.

"Officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider the case and make a decision."

Robinson was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years and six months for murder

The court previously heard how the pair, who were "under the influence of nitrous oxide", chased Harley along Kings Mill Lane and then attacked him with knives in the early hours after a chance meeting last February.

The boys were aged 14 and 16 at the time of the murder.

They had been due to stand trial after pleading not guilty, but later changed their pleas to guilty.

In a statement issued after sentencing, Harley's mother said: "You two get to continue with your lives, Harley doesn't, I don't, his sisters don't, his brother doesn't.

"You have destroyed a whole family."