Khan jailed for life with minimum 16 years for Sheffield school stabbing

Mohammed Umar Khan, 15, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16 years on Wednesday at Sheffield Crown Court after being found guilty of murdering fellow pupil Harvey Willgoose, also 15, during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3. The court heard that Khan brought a hunting knife to school and stabbed Harvey twice in a confrontation caught on CCTV.

Judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen told Khan he was the aggressor and had acted out of hurt and anger at what he perceived as a betrayal of friendship, adding she did not accept his claim that he acted in self‑defence or fear of violence. The jury convicted him of murder in August after viewing footage that showed one blow cut through a rib and pierce Harvey’s heart. The court was shown images and videos from Khan’s phone of him posing with knives and other weapons and evidence of internet searches relating to weaponry.

Prosecutors said the attack lasted around nine seconds and took place in front of other pupils, some of whom fled and hid, with several locking themselves in a school cupboard. Staff restrained Khan after the stabbing and were told by him, according to evidence,...