Schoolboy who killed fellow pupil had become ‘obsessed’ with weapons, trial told

A schoolboy who stabbed a fellow pupil to death on their lunch break “wanted to show he was hard” and had become “obsessed” with weapons in the weeks before the killing, prosecutors have told a jury.

The 15-year-old is on trial accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, also 15, who was killed at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

The defendant, who cannot be named, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder, saying he lost control and does not remember what happened.

Harvey Willgoose was killed in the incident at his school in February (South Yorkshire Police/PA)

Giving his closing speech to jurors on Thursday, prosecutor Richard Thyne KC said the stabbing was “purposeful aggression, likely explained as an act of retribution, getting back at Harvey for something”