A balaclava-clad teenager who had an “unhealthy interest” in knives grinned before fatally stabbing an 18-year-old man through the heart with a Rambo-style knife, a murder trial has heard.
Jurors at Derby Crown Court heard that Charles Hartle, who was aged 17 at the time, allegedly carried out an “utterly pointless killing” when he attacked Noah Smedley on a dark street in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on the evening of December 28 last year with the knife he kept hidden in his tracksuit bottoms.
