Brighton Argus court reporter Alison Cridland helped persuade a judge to lift an anonymity order which had stopped the press from naming a teenager who murdered his friend.

Working with Press Association journalist Tom Pugh, the pair wrote a brief note to Judge Richard Brown at Lewes Crown Court.

They wanted him to lift an order made on the 17-year-old defendant under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.

He had admitted murdering a 15-year-old friend at a caravan site in West Sussex in an apparently motiveless attack in which he used two kitchen knives and a table leg studded with a screw.

Neither the prosecution nor defence raised any objections and Judge Brown agreed to their request.

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