A teenage killer who fatally stabbed another boy on a crowded dance floor can be named for the first time today after applications from reporters lifted the order protecting his identity,
Yura Varybrus, the son of Ukrainian parents, knifed Surrey teen Charlie Cosser after being asked to leave an end-of-term party in the grounds of a £1.5million country farmhouse last summer.
Varybrus, who will be 18 in November, had never met Charlie before the party at Balmohano Farmhouse near Warnham, West Sussex.
He can be named for the first time after applications from reporters were allowed by Judge Christine Henson.
Varybrus was only 16 when he first pleaded guilty to murder at Lewes Crown Court on July 28 and was due to be sentenced last September.
Charlie Cosser (pictured), 17, was stabbed three times in the chest at an end-of-term summer party at a £1.5 million farmhouse estate in Warnham, West Sussex, after a fight broke out
Charlie’s father Martin pictured with mother Tara – he has said: ‘We haven’t been able to even start grieving for Charlie’
Police pictured at the scene of Charlie’s murder. The teenager was found around ten to 20 minutes later sitting on a pallet complaining his ‘chest and back really hurts’ and was rushed to hospital
Varybrus had been drinking heavily throughout the night and claimed he could not remember anything about the killing.
At another hearing in November his guilty plea was vacated, allowing him to be tried for murder.
Despite going to the same school as some of the other guests, Charlie and his killer had never met.
Charlie’s father Martin Cosser said: ‘He’s well known and I know people are scared of him.
‘The DCI told me when he told him Charlie had died, he didn’t even flinch.
‘He’s known to carry a knife and so is his friend, who I think gave the knife to him.’
The killer’s father Ihor Varybrus lives in West Sussex and mother Julia lives with her new partner in Surrey.
The trial jury were never told Varybrus had already pleaded guilty to murder days after Charlie died.
Then 16, he replied ‘Guilty’ in a clear voice when the charge of murder was put to him in July last year.
He exchanged a raised fist salute with his father as he was taken down from the dock at Lewes.
Speaking after the hearing, his father said: ‘It’s not just him, we are all guilty.
Charlie pictured with his older brother Adam who described his final moments with his sibling and said he broke the news to him that he and fiancée Jade Avery were expecting a child
Charlies’ parents (pictured) turned up to each day of the three-week trial along with Adam and the teenager’s sister Eloise, 16
Video footage played in court showed Charlie being stabbed after a fight erupted when a girl complained about the murderer’s behaviour towards her
‘He is a child, we are all responsible and should have been making sure they were not drinking. I never saw him drinking before.
‘I haven’t been able to see him for five days and he is only 16 – he is a child.
‘We need him to know we love him and we will stay with him all his life.’
The judge is due to sentence Varybrus at Brighton Crown Court later today.