A MUSICIAN who stabbed a student eight times as he walked home from a Halloween party has been found guilty of manslaughter.
Luke O'Connor, 19 described as a 'gentle giant' by his family - was killed during a horrifying incident on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield in October last year.
Shiloh Pottinger, 20, repeatedly knifed the Manchester Metropolitan University student with a 13-inch 'mafia stiletto' knife after reacting 'violently and unpredictably' to a joke made about his skateboard by Luke's friend.
Pottinger - a music producer and student at BIMM university - was just 19 at the time. A jury at Manchester Crown Court found Pottinger not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter following a three-week trial. He wept in the dock after the verdicts were read.
Judge Nicholas Dean KC said he faces a lengthy sentence!
Jurors heard how a fight developed at about 2am on October 26 after Luke's friend Charlie Robertson asked Pottinger if he could perform a 'kick flick' on his skateboard.
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