A rapper who stabbed a teenager to death had previously taken part in a 'knife crime prevention programme' and sung about 'extreme knife violence', a court heard. King Sibanda, 17, murdered Abdikarim Abdalla Ahmed on a Friday afternoon in Bury town centre near a busy shopping centre.
Sibanda knifed the 18-year-old after Mr Ahmed, known to friends as Abdi, had thrown a punch at him. Earlier that afternoon Abdi had called his older brother, 19-year-old Faisal Ahmed, after he'd been punched by a 15-year-old boy.
Abdi was stabbed to death by Sibanda, then 16, with a combat knife as he and his brother went looking for those responsible for the earlier attack. Manchester Crown Court heard that Sibanda had an 'established history' of carrying knives.
