A balaclava-clad teenager who had an “unhealthy interest” in knives, and grinned before fatally stabbing an 18-year-old man through the heart with a Rambo-style knife, has been found guilty of murder.
Charles Hartle, who was 17 at the time, carried out the “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.
