Eddie Ratcliffe's family life
Ratcliffe grew up the middle child of three, with an older brother and younger sister, in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
His mother an online fitness and wellbeing coach and latterly a ski instructor.
Sources have told the PA news agency that she has recently been asked to leave her job as a ski instructor because of the publicity around the case.
Ratcliffe took part in one kick boxing competition in Jamaica in 2018, aged 11, and skiing holidays and weekends boating in the Lake District. He had never been in trouble with police before and was a top student.
Passing eight GCSEs, taken this summer while in custody, Ratcliffe is now teaching himself A-levels in biology, chemistry, pure maths and English literature. He planned to study micro-biology at university
Ratcliffe’s father attended his trial sporadically, his mother every day, often making notes. Their son made no eye contact with either of them throughout.
Ratcliffe is now being held at
Barton Moss, the secure youth accommodation unit in
Salford,
where his apparent “arrogance” has not endeared him to everyone, sources said.
He has complained about the food,
And after one day’s harrowing evidence in court during the trial last December he returned to his accommodation, breezed into his bedroom and quickly changed into his ‘
Christmas jumper’, eager to participate in that night’s festive activities planned for the boys on the unit
Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlett Jenkinson were both convicted of murder following a four-week trial
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