On March 2nd,2019,Yousef Makki,a scholarship pupil at Manchester Grammar school,was stabbed in the heart by one of his friends on a quiet,leafy street in the wealthy Manchester suburb of Hale Barns.The two boys who were with him as the 17-year-old lay dying from a 12cm deep knife wound were brought up in the affluent surrounding areas and like Yousef had attended expensive public schools. But unlike them,Yousef was not from a wealthy family. He grew up seven miles and a world away on a council estate in Burnage and won a life changing bursary to a prestigious grammar school.Just four months after Yousef was killed,a jury found his friend not guilty of murder or manslaughter. The outcome has been widely questioned,raising issues of class,wealth,and privilege in the justice system.Yousef died from a single stab wound to the chest. When his sister,Jade,collected his blood-stained clothes and personal possessions,he had a single pound coin in his pocket.This is Jade's personal story of her brother and how the fight for justice has transformed her life.
Publisher: Mirror BooksISBN: 9781913406929Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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