CCTV footage captured the last moments of a school student who had been fatally stabbed in his head by a friend.
Joshua Molnar was 17, a Manchester Grammar School student, attacked Yousef Maki during an altercation in Hale Barns (Cheshire) on March 2.
Molnar is a member of a prominent Cheshire family and was acquitted by a jury after a four week trial at Manchester Crown Court. After Yousef used a knife to attack him, he claimed self-defence.
The chilling CCTV footage shows Yousef, who is distinguished by his glasses and white trainers , walking a few paces behind Molnar and Adam Chowdhary, also a Manchester Grammar pupil, on Gorse Bank Road in Hale Barns.
South Manchester’s senior coroner Alison Mutch told an inquest that it was impossible to safely determine whether or not the death of Alison Mutch occurred last week.
CCTV captures the last moments of Yousef Malikki, 17, from Burnage in south Manchester. He was attacked with a flick-knife and stabbed in his heart on March 2, 2019.
Joshua Molnar, aged 17 at the time, was captured slowly walking backwards away from Gorse Bank Road after the incident occurred before returning nearly two minutes later
Joshua Molnar and Adam Chowdhary were both 17, when they recorded their interactions on CCTV March 2, 2019, at The Square shopping centre.
Adam Chowdhary, Manchester can be seen in the Hale car park below Booths supermarket.
Following a seven day hearing at Stockport’s Coroner’s court, she made a narrative ending.
Molnar, a former public schoolboy from a wealthy Hale family, said he knifed his friend in self-defence, alleging Yousef pushed and punched him and called him ‘p***y’.
Following a Manchester Crown Court 2019 trial, he was found innocent of manslaughter and murder.
Coroner Alison Mutch rejected this claim yesterday, saying she could not be satisfied ‘on the balance of probabilities’ that Yousef’s death was ‘accidental’.
However, she added: ‘The precise circumstances in which he was wounded cannot, on the balance of probabilities, be ascertained.’
Miss Mutch gave a narrative verdict, rather than recording the unlawful killing.
Yousef is seen in the video clip that last captured him alive. He can be seen running around at 6:34pm on March 2, before confronting Molnar.
After the Gorse Bank Road fight, Molnar walks slowly away, before returning almost two minutes later.
Yousef attended Manchester Grammar School as a grammar school student. (pictured)
Manchester Grammar School’s family and friends left Yousef Makki tributes outside. (pictured)
Molnar stated in evidence that Yousef had a knife in his hand and that he used his weapon to defend himself.
The pair’s mutual friend Adam Chowdhary said he did not see Yousef with a knife in his hand – but told the inquest he did not see the actual confrontation, which took place in the leafy Greater Manchester suburb of Hale Barns.
Ms. Mutch was reluctant to give police body-cam footage, but said that she could release edited CCTV footage.
Adam Chowdhary’s friend Yousef had helped to arrange a smaller cannabis deal. They then drove to Manchester Airport for the drugs.
But Molnar was beaten by two associates of the alleged dealer and his £2,000 Starling bike was thrown over a hedge.
Molnar said he blamed Chowdhary, who had cycled away from the confrontation, and later took Chowdhary’s £300 jacket as ‘compensation’ until the bike was returned.
Chowdhary was from the wealthy Hale Barns clan. He stated that he wasn’t angry with Chowdhary and that he didn’t get along with Yousef. Yousef had attempted to locate his bicycle but had lost it.
Joshua Molnar (pictured), then 17 years old, was sentenced in 16-months at a Young Offenders Institution after he pleaded guilty for possessing a knife as well as perverting justice.
Molnar stated that it was Yousef more who wanted him to remain out during his 2019 trial.
“It seems he was just trying to get me to find my bicycle, and just make sure everything is in order so that we all could be good friends.
“I wasn’t having it.” It was my desire to be home so I got a little more insistent. I was getting a bit more angry, so I’d said: ‘”F**k off, I’m going home.”
“I believe Yousef has become a bit mad at me. He’s called, he’s called me a p***y.
“I got mad at it, since I was the only one standing there, getting a beating and one of my friends went off, while the other kinda just stood and watched.”
The CCTV footage captures Yousef, wearing the cap and having a manbag and arriving at The Square shopping center in Hale, on March 2nd at 3.45pm, on mountain bikes.
Adam had invited Yousef to spend the night with him. Molnar is seen riding on a racer with a pipe in his mouth. He joins the pair around 3.58pm. His grey jogging bottoms are what distinguish him.
They cycled to Booths underground parking lot shortly after 4.01pm, where Yousef shadowboxes.
Chowdhary is captured on his phone – he told the inquest he tried to call his drug dealer to reduce an order for cannabis he’d made while still at home from £90 to £45.
According to him, the three boys smoked Molnar’s joints while they were in the parking lot. They cycled back out of underground parking garage at 4.38pm. Molnar still smokes his spliff.
Chowdhary said that Molnar was ‘impressed’ when they showed him the flick knives Yousef and he had in their carpark.
Chowdhary claimed that he had ordered the pair from Yousef in an order placed on Chowdhary’s cell phone during a lunch break at Manchester Grammar School two weeks earlier.
Chowdhary claimed that both he and Yousef owned one when they left their home. Molnar owned his pen-knife.
At 4.50pm, the three brothers are seen cycling down Chapel Lane toward M56. Chowdhary said that Molnar wanted to see the flick knife he had given him, and that he never received it back.
The scene of the stabbing death in Hale Barnes on March 2nd 2019, Yousef Makki, was police stationed at Gorse Bank Road, Greater Manchester.
Chowdhary was captured riding quickly with the same camera, but in the other direction at 5.02pm. Chowdhary is seen looking out his shoulder.
Molnar was just beaten, and his bike was thrown across a hedge by an associate of a alleged drug dealer.
Molnar is walking backwards up Chapel Lane with two unidentifiable figures at 5.05pm – he is without his £2,000 carbon fibre Starling racer. A few seconds later, Yousef is following him on his bicycle.
They are captured by the two boys, who then head in the opposite direction on Chapel Lane at 5.13pm. Yousef was willing to help Molnar locate his bike.
Chowdhary arrives at Carrwood’s home at 5.36pm. A few seconds later, he leaves. Six minutes later, he returns home again. Chowdhary escapes to safety and is finally captured at 6.10pm.
The inquest heard that he did not tell his mother about the earlier drama.
Chowdhary stated that he didn’t wish to inform his mother about the incident. They’re drug dealers. My mum doesn’t know about the drug dealers and how they arrange to get weed.
The three boys reunite later and Molnar is captured taking Chowdhary’s £300 jacket on Chapel Lane at 6.30pm. He denied any suggestion that he had’snatched it’.
It was 6.34pm, 46 seconds.
According to the inquest, the stabbing that resulted in death was not captured on any cameras at 6.36pm.
Michael Bowman (a security guard) is seen driving to the scene with his car. He told the Inquest that he witnessed ‘pushing’ and’shoving’.
Molnar was so panicked that he ordered him to pull off his shirt and stop Yousef from getting more blood.
According to Mr Bowman, he said that he recalled questioning two men about the incident. Was there still danger around?
“And the answer was, “There was a gentleman wearing a grey- or blue hatchback. The hatchback was not on the scene.”
Molnar, who pleaded guilty at his 2019 trial to having the knife that inflicted fatal injuries and to perverting the course justice by lying about the incident to police, was given a 16-month training and detention sentence.
Chowdhary was a 19-year-old who was not found guilty at his 2019 trial of perverting justice. Chowdhary was placed in detention for four months after admitting to having a flick knife.
The inquest heard that he was distracted by his smartphone and didn’t notice the stabbing. He also said that he’d heard Molnar make comments about the car, and had’reiterated it’ to police.
Jade Akoum was Yousef’s sister and sat through all of the inquests. We are an open-book.
“We want to know the truth. “We want the truth. Let people decide for themselves what has happened.”