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\n Two teenagers have been found not guilty of murdering a 15-year-old boy, who was stabbed with a sword.\n <\/p>\n

Amen Teklay was found seriously injured on Clarendon Street in Glasgow’s Maryhill on the evening of 5 March 2025 and died at the scene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Two boys aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named due to their age, went on trial at the city’s high court accused of Amen’s murder.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors alleged the teenagers, with their faces masked, assaulted Amen and brandished a frying pan and a sword or similar instrument at him in Glenfarg Street and Clarendon Street.<\/p>\n

The murder charge said that Amen was struck on the body with the sword, leaving him so severely injured that he died.<\/p>\n

The teenage defendants denied murder, with the younger of the two lodging a special defence of self-defence.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old had accepted that he stabbed Amen and the jury was asked to decide if he acted in self-defence or if he may have been provoked.<\/p>\n

Jurors were also asked to consider whether the second accused, who is 17, acted in concert with the first.<\/p>\n

The defence KC for the 17-year-old said he believed “he had done nothing wrong”.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Iain McSporran KC said the boy “did not lay a finger on Amen Teklay”.<\/p>\n

He said that on the day of the incident, Amen had “gone out of his way” to find the first accused, and had been armed with a weapon described as a “cutlass” or a “pirate sword”.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old had not participated in the violence that followed, Mr McSporran said.<\/p>\n

On Monday, jurors returned a verdict of not guilty for both teenagers on their second day of deliberations.<\/p>\n

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Amen, who was an Eritrean refugee, was a pupil at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in the city.<\/p>\n

He was a bright pupil with an interest in music and media, his headteacher Claire McInally said at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

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