Yousef Makki Wikipedia, Mum Dies, Memorial, And Latest Development

Yousef Makki was killed by his friend Joshua Molnar. Although pals, they were boys from very different backgrounds.

Yousef was from a humble family in Burnage. He was stabbed through the heart by Molnar, the privately educated son of wealthy parents from Hale, on a leafy lane in affluent Hale Barns on March 2, 2019. Both were 17.

Molnar, now 20, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter following a trial later in 2019, telling the jury he had acted in self-defense.

He was cleared unanimously but he was handed 16-month detention and training order after admitting to possessing the knife which inflicted the fatal injury and lying to police at the scene.

Former Cheadle Hulme School pupil Molnar stabbed Yousef after a row over a cannabis deal that went wrong, the trial was told. It ended the promising life of Yousef, a straight-A student who dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.

It was also the nadir of Molnar’s descent from the privileged life of independent schools, designer gifts, and expensive holidays he had enjoyed as the son of two successful Hale entrepreneurs.

Yousef’s death and Molnar’s convictions were highly unusual for the country’s courts because it was a knife crime that happened against a backdrop of privilege.

Yousef was the academically gifted boy who won a bursary to one of the country’s best independent schools, Manchester Grammar School. Molnar was his friend from leafy Hale who wanted for nothing.

At the age of 15, Joshua Molnar began using cannabis. He was not an academic high achiever like his friend Yousef Makki. He saw himself as the class clown.

Yousef Makki Wikipedia
Yousef was a 17-year-old boy. A Manchester Grammar School pupil was stabbed through the heart during a fight on the Gorse Bank Road, in Hale Barns, on March 2, 2019.

The knife that killed Yousef was delivered with enough force that the hilt went into his chest, inflicting a 12cm deep wound that went right through his heart.

Yousef Makki Mum Dies
The mother of Yousef Makki tragically died herself just over a year after her son was stabbed to death.

Yousef Makki Memorial
The sister of Yousef said a permanent memorial on a tree near where he died would “keep his memory alive”.

Yousef Makki Latest Development
Recent footage captured on a police body-cam shows the shocking moments after Yousef Makki was fatally stabbed by his rich friend.

Released for the first time, it reveals tearful former public schoolboy Joshua Molnar lying to officers after he knifed his 17-year-old friend through the heart.