article_snippet.sent: In texts later that night, the boy told a friend: 'I'm going to prison' and posted on Facebook: 'The thing I'm going to miss most when I go pen (penitentiary) is NY gyal (New York Girl).'
article_snippet.sent: Ms Johnson Ms Johnson said Mr Barry's girlfriend, Ms Finn, had written an impact statement describing the 'appalling effects on Ms Johnson and many of Mr Barry's family and friends'.
article_snippet.sent: However the boy also accepted it was not a premeditated attack and that the boy had a 'troubled background'.
article_snippet.sent: the boy took into account the boy's remorse, revealed in a letter from the boy mother which was not read out in court.
article_snippet.sent: the boy, wearing a pale blue shirt with a white buttoned up collar, showed no emotion and stared straight ahead as the sentence was passed.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Kramer refused an application by the press to lift a legal ban on naming the boy, saying there were 'exceptional' circumstances.