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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

Young man who stabbed Yousef Makki to death four years ago faces giving evidence at another inquest

The young man who stabbed to death his friend Yousef Makki almost four years ago is to likely to face giving evidence for a third time after judges ordered a fresh inquest.

Joshua Molnar, then 17, told a jury he was acting in self-defence when he stabbed Yousef, also 17, through the heart on leafy Gorse Bank Road in affluent Hale Barns on March 2, 2019. He said Yousef had pushed him and pulled a knife first - he was acquitted of murder and manslaughter following a trial.

The Makki family fought for and won an inquest in 2021 where Molnar said he couldn't remember who pulled a knife first. Now aged 21, he is to be asked again about how he ended up stabbing his friend to death in a fresh inquest expected later this year.

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