Teenager faces life sentence for fireworks party murder of Harry Pitman

A teenager who claimed he never left home without a blade because he was so terrified by London’s knife crime epidemic is facing a life sentence for murdering schoolboy Harry Pitman. Harry, 16, was stabbed in the neck with a hunting knife as crowds gathered on Primrose Hill in north London to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks. Areece Lloyd-Hall, now 18, claimed he was acting in self-defence after the schoolboy punched him. He had the blade inside a sheath…