A 15-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed in the heart by a hunting knife-wielding fellow pupils during a lunch break spat, a jury heard. Harvey Willgoose, died after he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield by the 15-year-old student on February 3, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Richard Thyne KC, prosecuting, told a jury: “It was just five minutes into the school lunch break, when Harvey Willgoose was stabbed to death. It was quarter past 12 in the afternoon on Monday February 3 this year.
“Harvey was standing in the courtyard at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield when a knife was thrust into his chest, penetrating his heart.
“In less than a minute he had collapsed onto the ground, where he lost consciousness and died.
“He was 15 years old.”
Opening the case for the prosecution, Mr Thyne said: “The stab wound that killed Harvey was inflicted with such force that the knife cut the bone of one of his ribs.
“The knife used to cause that wound was a hunting knife with a 13cm, serrated-edged blade.”
Mr Thyne told jurors that the defendant “admits that he stabbed Harvey causing his death”.
He said: “He also admits that the stabbing was not carried out in lawful self-defence.”
The jury has heard that the defendant has admitted Harvey’s manslaughter, but denies murdering him.
The boy, who cannot be named, has also admitted possession of a knife on school premises.
The defendant sat in the glass-fronted dock, wearing a white shirt with no tie, as Mr Thyne outlined the case against him.
He was flanked by a number of adults, including an intermediary.
