Boy began terrifying spree of sex assaults when he was 14

A 16-year-old boy who sexually assaulted four schoolgirls and stabbed two others in a terrifying crime spree has been locked up for four-and-a-half years. The teenager, who cannot be named, was 14 when he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Thornton Heath, south London in November 2019. On 2 September 2020 he punched a mother in the face then sexually assaulted her 13-year-old daughter in front of her by trying to remove her underwear. Jason Seetal, prosecuting, said: ‘He was…