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26.04.2022 - 09:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A blood-soaked top. Blood-spattered trainers. These are the shocking keepsakes that the family of stabbing victim Yousef Makki want all parents to see, to encourage a conversation with their kids and prevent another family suffering the devastation caused by knife crime.
Yousef became an unwanted emblem of how knife crime has blighted all parts of society when he was fatally stabbed through the heart aged 17. From a humble background, the talented Manchester Grammar School pupil from Burnage had been killed by his rich friend, Joshua Molnar, on leafy Gorse Bank Road in affluent Hale Barns on March 2, 2019.
Now his campaigning older sister, Jade Akoum, has written a book, The Boy With A Pound In His Pocket, which outlines with shocking openness and detail how a single stab wound not only ended Yousef's promising life but also ripped apart many others.
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In her book, Jade, a mother-of-four, has published images of the blood-soaked top Yousef had been wearing that night, as well as the blood-spattered Nike trainers he had on when he was stabbed. Another image shows a small rip in the left breast of his bubble coat, where the knife had gone in. The hole is small but its impact huge.
Jade told the M.E.N: "It just shows the devastation knife crime can cause. People don't understand how much people can bleed from one little stab wound. There's so much blood. If you look at his clothes and his trainers, it's what teenagers wear. It brings it home to me just how young he was when he was killed.
"I want parents to discuss this with their kids and if they see a different perspective kids might think differently about their own
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