15-year-old sex attacker rampaged through Thornton Heath

A 15-year-old boy sexually assaulted four schoolgirls and stabbed two others in a terrifying crime spree, a court heard. The teenager, who cannot be named, attacked four girls, all in their early teens, in the Thornton Heath area of south London in a spate of attacks between November 2019 and November 2020. He knifed a girl in the thigh from behind at 8:50am on November 4 last year, leaving her needing stitches. He struck again nearby in an almost identical…