On Friday, the teenager told jurors he did not want to go to school on the morning he killed Harvey because “I thought I was going to get hurt that day”.<\/p>\n
Giving evidence in his defence for a third day, he told the court he ordered the knife because it was “scary looking”, adding: “If I pulled it out, somebody wouldn’t try to pull out theirs.”<\/p>\n
The boy’s barrister, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, asked him: “We know you took a knife to school with you that morning, why?”<\/p>\n
The defendant replied: “In case anyone tried to pull a knife out on me or try to hurt me.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hussain said: “Did you want to start any trouble that day?”<\/p>\n
The boy said: “No.”<\/p>\n
He told the court he did not want to hurt anyone on the day.<\/p>\n
Mr Hussain read a Snapchat message Harvey sent to the defendant before school that day, which said: “Is it beef I what [sic]”, which the boy said he read as meaning: “Is it beef or what?”<\/p>\n
Asked if he wanted “beef” – a confrontation – with Harvey, the boy answered “no”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the teenager told jurors he did not want to go to school on the morning he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881373420614666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}