Yousef Makki: Stabbed boy's family win fight for new inquest

The household of a 17-year-old lad who was fatally stabbed person won their combat to person a caller inquest into his death.

Joshua Molnar stabbed Yousef Makki with a weapon during a enactment successful Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, successful March 2019. He was cleared of manslaughter and murder.

An inquest aboriginal recorded a communicative decision and ruled retired some unlawful sidesplitting and accidental death.

Yousef's household were granted a judicial review, which has present quashed the archetypal inquest's findings.

Alison Mutch, elder coroner for Greater Manchester South, had concluded she could not beryllium definite of the "precise series of events" starring to Yousef's death.

But the High Court, sitting successful Manchester, has rejected that decision and directed a caller inquest earlier a antithetic coroner.

They challenged Ms Mutch's assertion that determination was insufficient grounds connected the "central issue" of whether Yousef's sidesplitting had been unlawful.

During his trial, Manchester Crown Court heard Molnar had claimed self-defence and told the assemblage that knives were produced aft an argument.

The tribunal heard Molnar, Yousef and different youth, Adam Chowdhary, had each carried knives that night.

Molnar was subsequently jailed for 16 months for possession of a weapon successful a nationalist spot and perverting the people of justness by lying to constabulary astatine the scene.