Yousef Makki was killed by his friend Joshua Molnar. Although pals, they were boys from very different backgrounds.
Yousef was from a humble family in Burnage. He was stabbed through the heart by Molnar, the privately educated son of wealthy parents from Hale, on a leafy lane in affluent Hale Barns on March 2, 2019. Both were 17.
Molnar, now 20, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter following a trial later in 2019, telling the jury he had acted in self-defence. He was cleared unanimously but he was handed a 16-month detention and training order after admitting possessing the knife which inflicted the fatal injury and lying to police at the scene.
