Boy, 14, charged with the murder of 14-year-old Nathaniel Shani in Manchester

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Police have arrested a second teenage boy in connection with the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Nathaniel Shani. The schoolboy died following an incident at Tavistock Square, in Harpurhey, yesterday evening (September 15).