Two teenage boys who stabbed to death a 15-year-old boy as he walked home from school have been given life sentences.
Khayri Mclean was murdered as he walked home from his school in Huddersfield with friends. The two defendants, aged 15 and 17, had changed into black clothes and black balaclavas and were hiding in an alleyway waiting for him to pass.
Leeds crown court was played CCTV footage of them leaping out and killing Khayri before making their escape. Both defendants had large knives.
Khayri was helped to his feet by his friends and started making his way back to school before collapsing. It was the end of the school day and children were “teeming out” at the very point he lay bleeding on the pavement, the court heard.
The boy was helped by a passing doctor and paramedics and made it still alive to hospital in Leeds, where he died.
Jailing the boys, the judge Mrs Justice Farbey said she was not clear what the motivation was, but it may have been gang-related. She sentenced the 15-year-old to a minimum of 16 years and the 17-year-old to a minimum of 18 years.
