Click here<\/a> to hear the latest from Manchester’s courts in our newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\nBoy A and Boy B were both handed the youth equivalent of a life sentence, and ordered to serve 19 years and 18 years respectively. Boy C was handed a determinate six year sentence. The defendants cannot be named for legal reasons.<\/p>\n
Mohanad\u2019s mother, Amaley Ahmed, told of her and her family\u2019s devastation at their loss. She said: \u201cWhy has it become the norm for our youths of today to think it is cool to carry knives?<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile this is becoming acceptable, all our child’s lives are at risk, and as a family, we are living with the consequences. I want people hearing this statement to understand that Mohanad was taken from us without a thought for the consequences, and his death should never have happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnife crime, sadly, is becoming prevalent among our children, but the death of my son should not just be another statistic. Mohanad was a living, breathing, larger than life, lovable, sometimes cheeky, 15-year-old boy, whose life ended when another child made a choice to take a knife out with them, and chose to use that knife on my son.<\/p>\n
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Police at the scene(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n
\u201cA choice that killed my son, and ended our lives as we knew it. I feel many emotions, including anger, for the boys responsible for my son’s death, but I also feel pity, for they too will have to live with the consequences of what they have done and I hope they see Mohanad’s face for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cOur lives will never be the same again and we will never come to terms with what has happened and the senselessness of it all. Mohanad was the centre of our family, a typical teenager, who loved hanging out with his friends and spending far too long on his gaming station.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn’t in a gang, and he had never been in trouble with the police. A fall out between a group of boys resulted in Mohanad losing his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘You took it to another level, and murdered him in the street’<\/p>\n
The court heard that Mohanad\u2019s murder, on September 15 last year, followed a series of street fights in the weeks prior.<\/p>\n
Sentencing, Mr Justice Griffiths said: \u201cHe [Mohanad] had got into arranged fights which were sometimes shared with boys from several schools on social media. No weapons were used.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no serious injuries. This was jockeying between schoolboys for status and bragging rights, the winners and the losers changing places from fight to fight, and not much damage done except injured pride.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you, [Boy A] and [Boy B}, took it to another level, got a combat knife, and murdered Mohanad in the street. You, [Boy C], lent active support to the joint attack, guilty of manslaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fights were discussed on social media, including on TikTok and Instagram. Following one fight in Alexandra Park about two weeks prior, Boy A had been left \u2018humiliated\u2019 after it appeared he had lost. Mohanad had been present in support of Boy A\u2019s rival.<\/p>\n
The judge said that Boy A then \u2018decided to raise the stakes and start fighting dirty by introducing ambush tactics and knives\u2019. Despite being only 15, the judge said Boy B had begun \u2018dealing in knives for money\u2019. In the intervening period, there was \u2018feverish chatting and speculation\u2019 about what would happen next, until September 13 when Boy A and Boy B began plotting a \u2018group, surprise attack, with knives\u2019.<\/p>\n
They suggested to Mohanad and his friends that it would actually be a \u2018fair fight between one or two on each side without weapons\u2019. Boy C said he did not expect it to be a knife fight.<\/p>\n
Boy A and Boy B \u2018did not let on to the rest of the group the full extent of their real plan\u2019, the judge said. They arranged to meet after school on Monday, September 15 in Whitworth Park. Mohanad had been pressured to agree to a \u2018fair, arranged fight against his better judgment so as not to lose face\u2019. The two groups came together for about an hour, without any fighting taking place.<\/p>\n
“[Boy A] and [Boy B] did not want a fair fight,\u201d the judge said. \u201cThe boy who was expected to fight on their side had not been brought with them. If there had been a fair fight, their side might have lost again, and they weren\u2019t going to risk that.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Mohanad and two of his friends began to leave, they were followed by a group of boys with the other side, and Boys A, B and C led the charge. Boy B threw Mohanad to the floor, Boy C kicked him \u2018as hard as he could\u2019 as he lay prone. Mohanad got back up and threw some punches in self-defence, before Boy A stabbed him with \u2018deliberate, lethal force\u2019.<\/p>\n
Mohanad was able to get up, but seconds later he collapsed. He died in the street. Speaking before sentencing was passed on her son\u2019s killers, Mohanad\u2019s mum said: \u201cMohanad brought out something special in everyone he met, such was his way. I will be forever grateful for the time I had with him.<\/p>\n
“I, on behalf of my family, can only request that the persons responsible are given a sentence that reflects the devastating effect this has had on our family, and will continue to do so. Whatever sentence they are given, the sentence we will live, without Mohanad, will far outweigh it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a teenage boy who was stabbed to death in the street hit out at knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":975687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30,31742,12,16,15],"class_list":["post-975686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-courts","tag-moss-side","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116613069210069467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975686","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=975686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}