Schoolboy’s teenage murderer detained for 16 years

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy who stabbed fellow pupil Harvey Willgoose to death during a school lunch break has been detained for at least 16 years.

- DAVE HIGGENS AND JOSH PAYNE

Harvey Willgoose

Mohammed Umar Khan, who can now be named following a judge's ruling, took a hunting knife to school and knifed the teenager in the heart in front of horrified children on February 3.

Khan's trial heard how other pupils fled “in fear and panic” some locking themselves in a school cupboard, after the fatal attack at the All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield.

He was found guilty of murder in August, with Harvey's sister Sophie Willgoose describing the killing as “not just a crime against my brother, it was a crime against all of us who loved him’:

During his sentencing hearing at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday, the defendant was told by judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen: “You were the aggressor and... you acted in hurt and anger at what you considered to be his betrayal of your friendship”

Khan showed no reaction as he stood in the dock, with Harvey's family looking down on the defendant from the public gallery.

Speaking after the hearing, Harvey’s mother Caroline Willgoose told reporters she was pleased Khan had been “made an example of”