Yousef Makki's family call for judicial review to overturn coroner's verdict

The family of Yousef Makki will push for a judicial review to quash a coroner's inconclusive verdict into the teenager's fatal stabbing.

Senior South Manchester Coroner Alison Mutch said she could not safely conclude the death was either unlawful or accidental, instead recording a narrative verdict following a seven-day inquest in November.

Yousef's family described the conclusion as 'disgusting' at the time.

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Now a QC acting for Yousef's father Ghaleb Makki will apply to the High Court for a judicial review to quash the coroner's ruling and seek a new inquest in front of a different coroner.

Yousef, a talented bursary student at the elite Manchester Grammar School from Burnage, was just 17 when he was fatally stabbed through the heart by his friend Joshua Molnar, a former public schoolboy from a wealthy Hale family, during a confrontation in Hale Barns on March 2, 2019.

A jury acquitted Molnar, now 20, of murder and manslaughter later that year, although he was handed a 16-month detention and training order after admitting possessing the knife which inflicted the fatal injury and lying to police at the scene.

He says he acted in self-defence, alleging Yousef pushed and punched him and called him 'p*ssy'.

His co-defendant at the 2019 trial Adam Chowdhary, also 17 at the time but now 19, from Hale Barns, who described Yousef as his 'best friend' at MGS, was acquitted of perverting the course of justice.

He was given a four-month detention order after admitting possession of a flick knife, one of two he claimed he and Yousef had jointly ordered during a break from lessons at MGS.

Following November's inquest, Senior South Manchester Coroner Ms Mutch