The Final Hours Before Holly Newton Was Murdered

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.9 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

England, 2023: 15-year-old Holly Newton was tragically murdered by her obsessive ex-boyfriend Logan MacPhail whilst on a first date with another boy.

Logan showed all the tell-tale signs of an abuser, a boy whose controlling behaviour finally proved fatal. He stalked Holly in the lead up to the attack, hacked her social media accounts, and finally cornered her in an alleyway armed with a knife.

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Holly’s Hope - https://www.hollyshope.co.uk/home

The Daniel Baird Foundation https://controlthebleed.org.uk/

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0:00.0	On a cold January morning, 15-year-old Holly Newton waved goodbye to her parents and set off to school for the very last time.
0:08.0	That afternoon, as she walked through the quiet town of Hexham with her friends, laughing, chatting, thinking she was safe.
0:16.0	Not all was as it seemed, because in the background, someone was following Holly, keeping his distance,
0:23.8	watching where she went, waiting until she was alone. And what makes this case even more
0:30.1	disturbing is that the person stalking Holly wasn't a stranger to her. He wasn't a grown man
0:36.4	lurking in the shadows. He was a child himself.
0:40.2	And by the end of that day, he would become her killer.
0:48.3	Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast. I'm Ellen Orn, and in today's episode, we're in Northumberland,
0:56.5	in the northeast of England, where in January 23, the small, quiet town of Hexham became the
1:02.8	scene of an unthinkable attack. Just yards from a busy main road, 15-year-old Holly Newton was
1:10.0	lured into an alleyway by someone that she had
1:12.9	been trying to escape for months. And just minutes later, Holly's mom received a phone call
1:19.8	from her daughter, only when she picked up, it wasn't Holly on the other end. It was a stranger,
1:26.8	letting her know that her daughter had just been stabbed.
1:30.3	But this case isn't only about what happened in that alleyway, it's about everything that happened before it.
1:37.3	The warning signs, the fear, the attempts to escape and get help, and how the threat around Holly escalated from frightening to fatal in a matter of hours.
1:49.0	Now, before we get into the case, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no harm or disrespect to anyone that we talk about today.
1:58.0	Our episodes are made with the utmost care to honour those who lost
2:02.1	their lives and to respect the profound grief that their loved ones endure.
2:06.9	By covering these cases, we aim to keep the victims' names and stories in conversation and
2:12.6	highlight the vital work that so many of their loved ones do in the wake of their deaths.
2:17.2	Given the nature of today's episode, we will be covering some very sensitive topics,
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