NAMED: The teen murderers jailed for brutal knife attack
JUDGE LIFTS RESTRICTION TO NAME DUO LOCKED UP FOR LIFE
TWO boys who carefully planned the murder of Huddersfield schoolboy Khayri Mclean before brutally attacking him with a knife and leaving him to die have been named for the first time.
A judge took the rare decision to lift the automatic reporting restriction prohibiting identification of the teenagers who murdered Khayri Mclean as he walked home from North Huddersfield Trust School in September 2022.
Following an application made by Huddersfield Examiner, Yorkshire Live and other media outlets, the judge has now allowed the press to name the 15-year-old as Jakele Pusey and 17-year-old Jovani Harriott.
She referenced the Examiner’s anti-knife crime campaign, Bin the Life, Save a Knife as she relayed her decision to the court.
Jakele, 15, was jailed for a minimum term of 16 years for the senseless and brutal attack on the schoolboy outside North Huddersfield Trust School on September 21 last year. Once released, he will be on licence for the rest of his life.
The 17-year-old, Jovani Harriott, was handed a minimum term of 18 years.
Earlier this year, the 15-yearold pleaded guilty to murder and the 17-yearold was found guilty at the end of a trial at Leeds Crown Court in March this year. Both had previously pleaded guilty to possession of a knife.
The teenagers “lay in wait” for Khayri as he walked home from school and attacked, with the 15-year-old shouting “Yo Khayri” before delivering the fatal blow to his chest. The 17-yearold was seen on CCTV “twisting in the air” before lunging at Khayri with a large knife and stabbing him in the leg. Both teenagers ran from the scene and changed their clothes while 15-year-old Khayri collapsed and received medical attention. He was taken to hospital but tragically died.
The court heard the attack was “carefully planned.”
Jonathan Sandiford, prosecuting, said the teenagers took a “long way around rather than walking straight up the road outside the school where the attack took place.”
Detective Superintendent Marc Bowes who led the investigation, said: “If ever a case has highlighted
The appalling attack on Khayri was a crime that rightly shocked people across the country Det Supt Mark Bowes
the dreadful consequences of knife crime and the culture of carrying such weapons, the appalling attack on Khayri outside his school was a crime that demonstrated the tragedy and rightly shocked people across the country. It will be hard for many of us to comprehend how what appears to have been a relatively low level dispute, has resulted in these males stabbing a fellow student to death at the end of an otherwise ordinary school day.”
“The murder of Khayri was a planned, organised and targeted attack. The severity of the injuries they inflicted left Khayri with no chance of survival and left those closest to him without a much-loved son and friend and we can see to this day the impact his loss has had and continues to have on them.
“The lengthy sentences given to these males will not bring Khayri back to those who have lost him but will at least keep two very dangerous males off our streets for many years to come.”