Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother Leon
|
Yeah the killer should have faced more consequences than he did, but it's not like it was a random hatecrime.
Quote:
A boy has been cleared of murdering a 17-year-old he stabbed in the heart with a flick knife.
Manchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was attacked in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 March.
A 17-year-old, who was referred to as Boy A, was accused of killing Yousef in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer.
The boy denied murder, claiming he acted in self-defence, and was also found not guilty of manslaughter.
The teenagers had previously admitted possessing a knife and Boy A pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice by lying to police. Both defendants are due to be sentenced for those charges on 25 July.
The jury heard the stabbing was an "accident waiting to happen" as all three boys indulged in "idiotic fantasies" playing as middle-class gangsters.
Despite the privileged backgrounds of both defendants, they led "double lives", the court was told.
Calling each other "Bro" and "Fam" and the police "feds", the defendants and Yousef smoked cannabis and listened to rap and drill music, the trial heard.
They would post videos on social media, making threats and posing with "shanks" or knives.
Hours before the fatal stabbing, Boy B arranged a £45 cannabis deal and the teenagers planned to rob the drug dealer - a "soft target", the trial heard.
But the robbery went wrong and Yousef and Boy B fled, leaving Boy A to take a beating.
Boy A then later pushed Yousef who punched him in the face, the trial heard.
He told the jury Yousef pulled out a knife and he responded by also taking out a knife and his victim was accidentally stabbed.
|