A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a fellow pupil he stabbed at a school in Sheffield during their lunch break.
Harvey Willgoose, who was also 15, died when he was stabbed in the heart at All Saints Catholic High School on Monday 3 February.
The jury in a month-long trial at Sheffield Crown Court was told that Harvey was attacked following a confrontation between the pair during a lesson earlier that day.
The defendant, who cannot be named due to his age, had admitted manslaughter and possession of a knife but had denied murdering the teenager. He was found guilty by a majority verdict of 11 to 1.
Following the verdict, the judge, Mrs Justice Ellenbogen, told the boy he would likely be sentenced in October.
During the trial, jurors heard Harvey had been attacked in the school’s courtyard after the two teenagers had quarrelled over social media in the days beforehand.
They had taken opposite sides in a separate conflict between two other pupils, which led to the school being briefly locked down on 29 January.
During the trial, the jury was shown CCTV footage of the fatal stabbing.
The defendant had claimed he could not remember the attack and that he had “snapped” and “lost control” of his actions.
But prosecutors said he “wanted to show he was hard” and “knew exactly what he was doing”, saying he had an “unhealthy interest in weapons” and had looked up “zombie killer knife” and other blades online.
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