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| Sidali Mohamed death: Boy guilty of student's murder outside college | Sidali Mohamed death: Boy guilty of student's murder outside college |
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| A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a student outside a college in Birmingham. | A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a student outside a college in Birmingham. |
| Sidali Mohamed, 16, was stabbed outside the gates of Joseph Chamberlain College in Highgate, on 13 February. He died days later in hospital. | Sidali Mohamed, 16, was stabbed outside the gates of Joseph Chamberlain College in Highgate, on 13 February. He died days later in hospital. |
| The 17-year-old defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, was also found guilty of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding. | The 17-year-old defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, was also found guilty of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding. |
| The murder trial was told the victim was killed in "less than a minute". | |
| Sidali - known as Sid - was one of three teenagers separately stabbed to death in Birmingham within the space of 12 days earlier this year. | |
| The killer had headed to the college armed with a knife after his friend and cousin had been encountering issues with a group of boys, jurors were told. | |
| He told the court he had never met Sidali until the stabbing. | |
| The 17-year-old was also found guilty of two counts of possession of an offensive weapon. | |
| The teenager was cleared at Birmingham Crown Court of another count of wounding with intent and threatening another with an offensive weapon. | The teenager was cleared at Birmingham Crown Court of another count of wounding with intent and threatening another with an offensive weapon. |
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