A damning internal report has identified police failings during the murder investigation of Yousef Makki, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.
The talented 17-year-old bursary student at Manchester Grammar School, from Burnage, was fatally stabbed by his friend Joshua Molnar in Hale Barns on March 2, 2019. Molnar was acquitted of Yousef's murder in July of that year.
Now an internal GMP report has described how, a fortnight before the fatal 2019 stabbing, Molnar was stopped in Wilmslow with balaclava and linked to a knife - but police showed 'little appetite' to take action.
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Molnar was arrested on the night of the stabbing but the report also
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