Three teenagers have been found guilty of killing a 14-year-old boy who was on his way to play football with friends.
Ibrahima Seck was stabbed in the heart in the New Moston area of Manchester on 8 June and died in hospital.
A 14-year-old, who boasted in a rap video about having “done a murder”, was found guilty of murder, and two boys, then aged 14 and 16, were convicted of manslaughter.
Two women, Kerri Dobson, 37, and Naomi Heavens, 39, both from Manchester, were found guilty of assisting an offender after taking the teenagers away from the scene and providing them with a change of clothes.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court heard there had been “bad feeling” between Ibrahima and his friends and the three boys in the weeks leading up to the attack.
Ibrahima had been on his way to play football with his brothers and friends when he came across the other group. A brief altercation occurred between one of Ibrahima’s friends and one of the boys in the other group.
As Ibrahima ran away, the trio chased him and caught up with him in the car park of the Fairway Inn pub.
Ibrahima slipped on the ground and was fatally stabbed by one of the 14-year-olds, the trial heard.
Witnesses reported seeing the 16-year-old, who has since turned 17, hand the knife over to his accomplice before the chase, and the third boy encouraging the attack as it took place.
As Ibrahima sought help from a nearby house, the three boys fled and were driven away from the area.
One of the boys made a rap video, later recovered by the police, where he boasted “we just done a murder”.
Officers investigating the stabbing stopped Dobson’s vehicle on the evening of the attack and found her deleting things from her phone, “clearly trying to cover up the help that she had provided to the teenagers”, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The 16-year-old boy and one of the 14-year-olds handed themselves in at Central Park Police Station on the day of the attack, and the second 14-year-old was arrested at his home address the following day.
