“Somebody would try and attack me and I would pull it out and they wouldn’t try and attack me,” the boy explained. Mr Thyne asked him about a number of photos on his phone of him with this particular knife, and the boy said he posted two of them on social media.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor asked: “To send a message out you weren’t to be messed with?” The boy agreed and said he wanted some people to believe he carried a knife. Asked if he wanted some people to believe he was prepared to use the knife, the defendant told the jury: “No. Not really. But, if they saw I had a knife, they wouldn’t really want to mess with me.”<\/p>\n
CCTV footage shown<\/p>\n
The jury at Sheffield Crown Court has been shown CCTV footage of Harvey being stabbed in a courtyard at the school at lunchtime on February 3. The court has heard that the defendant, who cannot be named, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder.<\/p>\n
He has also admitted possession of a knife on school premises. On Wednesday, the boy was asked by Mr Thyne: “Had you tried to provoke him (Harvey)?” When the defendant said “no”, Mr Thyne asked him: “Had you tried to wind him up earlier in the day?”<\/p>\n
Defence claims bullying<\/p>\n
The boy replied: “No, it was the other way around.” Mr Thyne then asked: “Were you trying to get Harvey to do something to you so you could let out your anger?” Again the boy replied “no”.<\/p>\n
The defendant told the jury how he also bought another knife online, which was based on a design from the video game Assassin’s Creed. When Mr Thyne said: “Did you have a reputation for having an interest in knives?” the boy said: “Not really. That’s not what I’m known for.”<\/p>\n
Long period of bullying<\/p>\n
Addressing the jury at the beginning of the trial, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, defending, said: “(The defendant) did not set out to kill or seriously hurt anyone. The defence say (the defendant’s) actions that day were the end result of a long period of bullying, poor treatment and violence, things that built one upon another until he lost control and did tragically what we’ve all seen.”<\/p>\n
The defendant will continue to give evidence on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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