TheisisA 15 -year -old schoolboy, who stabbed a fellow disciple, told a jury that he was carrying a “scary looking” knife for self -defense.
The boy, who cannot be nominated due to his age, is accused of killing Harvey Wilgose in the Sheffield Crown Court.
Harvey died even after stabbing during his lunch brake at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on 3 February.
The defendant convicted the holding and possession of a knife in the school premises, but denies the murder.
On Friday, the teenager told the gamblers that he did not want to go to school in the morning, he killed Harvey because “I thought I was going to hurt that day”.
Giving evidence in his defense for the third day, he told the court that he ordered a knife as it was “looking scary”, saying: “If I took it out, no one would try to take them out.”
The boy’s barrister, Gul Nawaz Hussain Casey asked him: “We know that you took a knife to go to school with you that morning, why?”
The defendant replied: “If someone tried to draw a knife on me or tried to hurt me.”
Mr. Hussain said: “Did you want to start any trouble that day?”
The boy said: “No.”
He told the court that he did not want to hurt anyone that day.
Mr. Hussain read a Snapchat message sent to the defendant before school that day, stating: “Is this beef [sic]”, Which boy said that he reads as meaning:” Is it beef or what? ,
Asked if he wants “beef” – a conflict – with Harvey, the boy responded to “no”.
PA mediaThe defendant explained to the jury of eight women and four men, how he met Harvey after reaching school on 3 February and Harvey said to him: “Is it a beef between me and you?”
He said that he asked Harvey why he felt that he had “beef”, but Harvey asked him about his injured hand.
The boy said that they again start joking about boxing and started roaming in the corridor.
The defendant said that Harvey was laughing and he said to the jury: “I was thinking that it was fine between me and him.”
The jury has been stabbed in a courtyard of Harvey’s CCTV footage in a courtyard later that day.
Addressing the jury last week, Mr. Hussain said: “(The defendant) did not take out someone to kill or seriously hurt.
“Raksha says that (defendant’s) action was the end result of the long -term of bullying, poor treatment and violence on that day, things that were built on each other until he lost control and tragically did what we have seen.”
The test is going on.
