A balaclava-clad teenage r who grinned before fatally stabbing an 18-year-old man through the heart with a Rambo-style knife, has been detained.

Charles Hartle, who was 17 at the time, carried out the “utterly pointless killing” when he attacked Noah Smedley on a dark street in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on the evening of December 28 last year, with the knife he kept hidden in his tracksuit bottoms. Hartle, of Station Road, Stanley, was found guilty of murdering Mr Smedley on July 25, after a two-week trial, and he has been detained for a minimum of 20 years today at Derby Crown Court .

Prosecution counsel Adrian Langdale KC said during his trial that as Hartle moved towards Mr Smedley, he “grinned or smiled before deliberately aiming for and stabbing him in the chest”. Sentencing the now

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