A schoolboy who stabbed fellow Sheffield scholar Harvey Willgoose to demise on their lunch break has been discovered responsible of homicide.
Willgoose, 15, was stabbed within the coronary heart by a looking knife that one other 15-year-old boy introduced into faculty.
Sheffield Crown Court docket heard how different pupils fled "in worry and panic", with some locking themselves in a faculty cabinet.
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The assault occurred at All Saints Catholic Excessive Faculty in Sheffield on February 3.
The defendant, who can’t be named due to his age, admitted to manslaughter however denied homicide, saying he "snapped" after a protracted interval of bullying.
Nonetheless, prosecutors stated he "knew precisely what he was doing" and "wished to indicate he was laborious".
Studying a household assertion exterior courtroom, Harvey's sister Sophie Willgoose stated: "On February 3, we didn’t simply lose Harvey, we misplaced part of ourselves.
"Harvey was lively, heat, humorous and caring with a novel means to deliver folks collectively. He was deeply liked by his household, cherished by his buddies, and revered by all who knew him.”
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