A blood-soaked top. Blood-spattered trainers. These are the shocking keepsakes that the family of stabbing victim Yousef Makki want all parents to see, to encourage a conversation with their kids and prevent another family suffering the devastation caused by knife crime.
Yousef became an unwanted emblem of how knife crime has blighted all parts of society when he was fatally stabbed through the heart aged 17. From a humble background, the talented Manchester Grammar School pupil from Burnage had been killed by his rich friend, Joshua Molnar, on leafy Gorse Bank Road in affluent Hale Barns on March 2, 2019.
Now his campaigning older sister, Jade Akoum, has written a book, The Boy With A Pound In His Pocket, which outlines with shocking openness and detail how a single stab wound not only ended Yousef's promising life but also ripped apart many others.
