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| Yousef Makki case: Boy, 17, cleared of stabbing teenager to death | Yousef Makki case: Boy, 17, cleared of stabbing teenager to death |
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| A teenager has been found not guilty of the murder of a 17-year-old boy. | A teenager has been found not guilty of the murder of a 17-year-old boy. |
| Manchester Grammar School pupil Yousef Makki was stabbed in the heart with a flick-knife in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, on 2 March. | |
| A 17-year-old, who was referred to as Boy A, was accused of stabbing him to death in a row over an attempt to rob a drug dealer. | |
| The boy was also found not guilty of manslaughter after a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. | The boy was also found not guilty of manslaughter after a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. |
| Following the verdict Yousef's father Ghaleb Makki exploded in fury and the judge, Mr Justice Bryan, cleared the courtroom. | |
| Mr Makki swore and shouted: "Where's the justice for my son? Where's the justice?" | |
| Yousef, from a single-parent Anglo-Lebanese family from Burnage, south Manchester, had won a scholarship to the prestigious £12,000-a-year school. | |
| A second teenager, also 17 and referred to as Boy B, was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice and not guilty of conspiracy to rob. | |
| Both had previously admitted possession of a knife and Boy A pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. |