Yousef Makki: Greater Manchester Police to consider 'further steps' after killing ruled unlawful
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGreater Manchester Police are set to ‘carefully review’ a coroner’s ruling that Yousef Makki was unlawfully killed by his schoolfriend Joshua Molnar.
The force has announced it will review coroner Geraint Williams’s ruling today (October 25) that Molnar's actions amounted to manslaughter.
It said it will review the conclusion with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) before ‘considering further steps’. Manchester Grammar School student Yousef Makki, 17, died after he was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife by Molnar in Hale Barns, Trafford, on March 2, 2019, prompting a crown court trial and two inquests.
Molnar had previously been acquitted of manslaughter and murder following a criminal trial in 2019. But Yousef's family fought for a second inquest into the teenager's death after a coroner previously concluded in 2021 he died of 'complications from a stab wound the precise circumstances of which cannot, on the balance of probabilities, be ascertained'.
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