@birmingham.live: 🚨 A Birmingham paperboy was ‘unlawfully killed’ four decades after it was wrongly deemed he had taken his own life, an inquest heard today. Mark Billington, 15, was found hanging from a tree from an “intricate three knot rope system”, which the inquest heard were "extremely unlikely" to have been tied by him. His tragic death was initially recorded as an open verdict after his death was treated as a suicide. West Midlands Police reinvestigated the case in 1998 and started to investigate it as a murder in 2002. Today (Tuesday 3 November), Senior Birmingham and Solihull Coroner Louise Hunt ruled that she was satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Mark was “unlawfully killed”. Speaking after the hearing, Mark’s sister Cheryl Jeyes said: “We've finally received some sort of justice after 42 years of heartache. You can read more on Birmingham Live. #coroner#birmingham #westmidlands #uknews #crime

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Tuesday 03 November 2026 17:00:00 GMT