Teenager jailed for minimum 15 years for murdering lawyer with screwdriver outside Greggs

A teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver as he walked home from work has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.

Ewan Ireland was just 17 when he attacked 52-year-old Peter Duncan at the entrance to Newcastle's Eldon Square shopping centre in August.

The two had merely brushed past each other when the youth pulled out the screwdriver he had just shoplifted and stabbed the devoted father once in the heart.

Mr Duncan, who was an in-house lawyer for an international maritime firm, managed to walk a few yards further before collapsing close to a Greggs outlet.

Ireland admitted murder at a previous hearing and was sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday.

The media was able to publish his identity once he turned 18 in October.

Ahead of sentencing, Mr Duncan's widow pleaded with the judge not to let Ireland "devastate any more families".

Following Ireland's guilty plea, it emerged that he was a serial offender who continued to commit violent crimes despite being on bail.

At the time of the killing he was on bail for an offence of affray, was under investigation for a robbery and still subject to a 12-month conditional discharge for a battery offence the previous summer.
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