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Dave Higgens

Boy who stabbed pupil to death tells jury why he took ‘scary’ knife to school

Harvey Willgoose, 15, was stabbed to death (South Yorkshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A 15-year-old boy who stabbed a fellow pupil to death has told a jury he took a “scary-looking knife” to school that day “in case anyone tried to pull a knife out on me or try to hurt me”.

The teenager told a court on Friday he did not want to go to school on the morning he killed Harvey Willgoose, also 15, because “I thought I was going to get hurt that day”.

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