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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

Family wins high court fight for fresh inquest into stabbing of Yousef Makki

Yousef Makki
High court judges ordered a fresh inquest into Yousef Makki’s death before a different coroner after his family brought a judicial review. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The family of a teenager who was stabbed to death have won their fight for a second inquest, after a high court ruling on Friday.

Yousef Makki, 17, died after his friend Joshua Molnar, a former public schoolboy who was 17 at the time, stabbed him through the heart with a knife during a row in the affluent area of Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, in March 2019.

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