This is the chilling moment a youngster calmly walks to a Wolverhampton park to brutally rape and murder a 14-year-old girl.

In the footage, which was released by West Midlands Police, Ayman Aziz is captured on CCTV travelling towards West Park to violently kill Viktorija Sokolova.

The warped 17-year-old lured the Lithuanian-born youngster to the park under the pretence they would 'smoke weed and talk' on April 11, 2018.

But only today are we able to report this, after courts lifted restrictions on revealing the killer's identity .

Wolverhampton Crown Court had heard that he intended to have sex with Viktorija and had searched for sexually explicit content online beforehand.

Aziz subjected the schoolgirl to horrific levels of violence in a two-hour attack after she refused his advances.

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He was caught on CCTV as he attempted to cover up the offence by hiding bloodied clothing, having deleted Facebook messages and hurled his victim's phone towards a lake.



Detectives believe he used a hammer, which has never been found, to launch the assault on his victim - who suffered a fractured skull, brain injuries and shattered vertebrae.

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Aziz could not be identified in reports at the time as reporting restrictions because of his age were imposed.

Although the trial judge agreed to lift those restrictions following an application by PA and other media organisations, the teenager's lawyers challenged that decision and the restrictions remained in place pending an appeal.

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Adam Kane QC argued the reporting restrictions should not be lifted because they would have an adverse effect on Aziz's rehabilitation.

He also said the teenager, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, has been "bullied and threatened" in detention and has stopped attending educational classes as a result.

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But the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and two other senior judges rejected Aziz's challenge at the Court of Appeal on Thursday, meaning he can now be named.

The judges also rejected an appeal by Aziz, who watched the hearing over a video link from the young offenders' institution where he is detained, against his minimum term.



Detective Inspector Caroline Corfield, who worked on the case, described the scene as one of the most shocking and brutal murders officers had ever seen.

She said: “It’s one of the most shocking murder investigations that I have never worked on.

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“She was 14-year-old, she went to the park that night to meet someone she called a friend. But he has murdered her in an explicitly violent attack and then degraded her by dragging her body from the initial site of the attack and leaving her stripped, half-naked, over a park bench to be found by a dog walker the next morning.”