A balaclava-clad teenager with an “unhealthy fascination” with knives who grinned before fatally stabbing an 18-year-old man through the heart with a Rambo-style knife has been detained for a minimum of 20 years.
Charles Hartle was 17 when he carried out the “utterly pointless killing” of Noah Smedley on a dark street in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on the evening of December 28 last year, with the knife he had hidden in his tracksuit bottoms.
