Boy shouted ‘Yo Khayri’ before horror stabbing

THE 15-year-old boy who murdered Khayri Mclean said he had “no remorse” for the killing in a conversation while he was remanded in custody.

Child killer Jakele Pusey – who pleaded guilty to murder earlier this year – was recorded having a conversation while remanded into youth offender institution HMP Wetherby.

During the trial, jurors heard how the teenagers “lay in wait” for Khayri as he walked home from school on Woodhouse Hill, Huddersfield, on September 21 last year.

Witnesses told how the two boys – decked in all-black clothing including balaclavas – ran out of a ginnel and attacked Khayri.

The 15-year-old was heard to shout “Yo Khayri” before stabbing Khayri in the chest. The second boy, the 17-year-old, was seen on CCTV “twisting in the air” before lunging at Khayri with a large knife and stabbing him in the leg.

During the sentencing hearing yesterday morning, prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford spoke about the conversation the 15-year-old defendant had while in custody at HMP Wetherby.

Mr Sandiford said: “During that conversation, he admitted the murder and gave some indication of the motive and also discussed how he might present himself as a remorseful person or a person who suffered trauma in order to get a shorter sentence.

“There was a discussion about whether or not he was going to admit his guilt in court. He initially said he was going ‘not guilty until proven guilty’ and later said he had an alibi and as far as the phone dropped at the scene was concerned he would simply say he had lost that.

“He admitted the murder saying at that stage they hadn’t intended to get Khayri Mclean and instead another boy. He said that another person had set up the attack and he said ‘he knows what he did’. He said that person was talking to the 17-year-old and admitted it was him who was seen on CCTV dropping the phone but said ‘the feds don’t have anything on me’.”