Overview
- Manchester Crown Court ordered Boy A, 14, to detention at His Majesty’s pleasure with a minimum term of 11 years and 10 months.
- Boy B, 17, and Boy C, 14, were sentenced to two years 10 months and two years four months in youth detention, with two-thirds to be served in custody.
- The judge rejected an application to lift section 45 reporting restrictions, ruling that naming the youths could harm their rehabilitation.
- Prosecutors said Boy B handed Boy A a knife before all three chased Ibrahima, who was stabbed once in the heart during a June 8, 2025 encounter in New Moston.
- Two women, Naomi Heavens and Keri Dobson, were convicted of assisting an offender and received 12-month prison terms suspended for one year.