A teenager found guilty of manslaughter after punching a would-be peacemaker has been named after challenges in court by journalists.

William Upton, 17, felled 24-year-old Adam Rogers with one punch during a night out in Blackburn last July.

Mr Rogers, who was attempting to play peacemaker after a drunken argument broke out between Upton and his friends, hit his head on ground and died the following day in hospital, reports Media Lawyer.

Upton claimed he had been acting in self-defence.

The judge at Preston Crown Court lifted an anonymity order under Section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 which automatically bans the media from naming minors in court cases.

Sam Chadderton, of the Lancashire Telegraph, and Mary Clarke, of Barnes News Service, who had both covered the entire trial, saw a positive response to their request which they made when a jury had convicted Upton of manslaughter at the end of January.

Judge Stuart Baker had decided to leave his the decision until the sentencing hearing in Preston last Monday although he adjourned sentencing once again.

Judge Baker said: “He faces an inevitable custodial sentence, the duration of which will extend considerably beyond his 18th birthday. He will be an adult for serving much of the sentence.

“There is a legitimate public interest in knowing who has committed grave crimes.”

Upton will have to wait to learn his fate after the court heard his legal team were concerned about probation chiefs’ assertions that he was considered a future “high risk” of danger to the public.

The judge delayed sentencing after he ruled he needed the full information on that aspect of the case because it concerned an element of public protection.