Two murderers who killed schoolboy Khayri Mclean have been named and pictured for the first time.
A judge has now allowed the press to name 15-year-old as Jakele Pusey and 17-year-old Jovani Harriott, who planned the murder of Huddersfield schoolboy Khayri Mclean before attacking him with a knife and leaving him to die as he walked home from school on September 21 last year.
Jakele, 15, was jailed for a minimum term of 16 years for the senseless and brutal attack on the schoolboy. 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, YorkshireLive reports.
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Earlier this year, the 15-year-old pleaded guilty to murder and the 17-year-old was found guilty at the end of a trial at Leeds Crown Court in March. 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-year-old 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.' Mr Sandiford said the teenagers took a "long way around rather than walking straight up the road outside the school where the attack took place."
It was said that during a conversation while in custody at HMP Wetherby, the 15-year-old Jakele said he had 'no remorse' for the murder.
Detective Superintendent Marc Bowes who led the investigation, said: “If ever a case has highlighted 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. “
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