A man who stabbed a 16-year-old schoolboy in the heart during a row over an alleged £20 debt was caught after his own mother called the police to turn him in. Joshua Delbono, 19, stabbed Charley Bates multiple times with a five-inch blade after a fight broke out between two rival groups near the Radstock library in Somerset at around 6.30pm on July 31, 2022.
Shortly after midnight, Delbono's mum dialled 999 telling the handler: "My son's killed someone. He's in my house now, I can't let him go anywhere," before handing the phone over to the killer. On the call, Delbono of Frome, Bristol admitted discarding a knife, telling the officer on the other end he 'launched it' before suggesting possible places it could be.
He also confessed to stabbing Charley but denied murder as he claimed he had acted to defend a friend, the ECHO reports. Delbono was found guilty by a jury at Bristol Crown Court, following a two-week trial and seven hours of deliberation.
