A judicial review into a coroner's conclusion in the Yousef Makki case will be held next month. Earlier this year, the Makki family pushed for a review to quash the narrative conclusion delivered following a seven-day inquest.
The application was granted and the review will be heard on November 7 at Manchester Civil Justice Centre. In November 2021, senior south Manchester Coroner Alison Mutch recorded a narrative conclusion. She said she could not conclude whether Yousef's death was unlawful or accidental.
The family described the conclusion as 'disgusting'. An application was made to High Court by a QC acting for Yousef's father Ghaleb.
Yousef was a talented bursary student at the elite Manchester Grammar School from Burnage, and was fatally stabbed through the heart by his friend Joshua Molnar during a confrontation in Hale Barns on March 2, 2019.
A jury acquitted Molnar of murder and manslaughter later that year. He was handed a 16-month detention and training order after admitting possessing the knife which inflicted the fatal injury and lying to police at the scene. He says he acted in self-defence, alleging Yousef pushed and punched him.
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