Killing of Katie Rough
| Killing of Katie Rough | |
|---|---|
| Location | York, United Kingdom |
| Date | 9 January 2017 4:20 p.m. – 4:35 p.m. (GMT) |
Attack type | Child-on-child homicide by smothering, stabbing, manslaughter |
| Weapons | Glove, Stanley knife (used post-mortem) |
| Victim | Katie Sharon Rough, aged 7 |
| Perpetrator | 15-year-old female |
| Motive | Unclear, allegedly due to delusions of Rough being non-human |
| Verdict | Pleaded guilty |
| Convictions | Manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility (24 November 2017) |
| Charges | First-degree murder (dropped) |
| Sentence | Life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 5 years |
Katie Sharon Rough (16 January 2009 – 9 January 2017), a 7-year old English girl, died in the Woodthorpe area of her hometown of York in the United Kingdom, on 9 January 2017. She was killed by a girl aged 15 years old at the time, who handed herself in to the police immediately after attacking Rough. Under UK law, Rough's killer was considered a minor at the time of the killing, and so her name was not made publicly known in the subsequent investigation and trial.
Rough's killer pleaded guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. It emerged that the teenager had been suffering from psychosis at the time of the attack, caused by an unknown psychiatric disorder and she was subsequently sentenced to a minimum of five years' detention on 24 November 2017.