A teenage boy who murdered a fellow pupil at a Sheffield school has been detained for life with a minimum of 16 years.
Mohammed Umar Khan stabbed Harvey Willgoose with a hunting knife at All Saints Catholic High School on February 3.
Khan must serve a minimum term in custody before he is considered for release by the Parole Board. He will then be subject to licence conditions for life.
Passing sentence, the Mrs Justice Ellenbogen told Khan: “This senseless act has had devastating effects on Harvey’s family. You accept you took the knife into school and intended to have it to use as a weapon, albeit you said for protection. You then used that knife for Harvey’s murder.”
Harvey’s older sister, Sophie Willgoose, read a victim impact statement to the court at the defendant’s sentencing hearing, in which she said the killer “didn’t just end Harvey’s life, he ended ours too.”
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Mohammed ‘Umar’ Khan has been named as the 15-year-old who stabbed Harvey Willgoose |
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE
Willgoose, 15, died after being stabbed at school in Sheffield |
Tributes outside All Saints Catholic High School | PA
