In a letter published in today's Guardian, the chief executives of several major children's and human rights organisations have joined CRAE's national co-ordinator in calling for reporting restrictions to be maintained to protect the identity of the two young boys who have admitted attacking two other children in Edlington in April last year.  The defendants, now aged 11 and 12, pleaded guilty to the grave attacks and are expected to be sentenced tomorrow.  They are then likely to face an application from media organisations for their identities to be made public. 

The lifting of reporting restrictions would clearly contravene requirements under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for children's privacy to be protected at all stages of criminal proceedings.  Read the Guardian letter here.