The man who killed the mother of reality star Chanelle Hayes will stay behind bars after the Parole Board decided he should not be released. Keith Pollard’s request to be moved to an open prison was also rejected.
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Youssef Makki’s family was plunged into a nightmare when the bright and gentle Manchester schoolboy was shockingly killed in 2019. Here, his older sister, former schoolteacher Jade Akoum, 30, mum to Rafaat, 12, Zak, four, Daniel, three, and Yousef, 18 months, shares the harrowing story of her family’s fight for justice… "Seeing my son Rafaat setting off for school in his smart uniform always makes me proud. It’s the same uniform my brother Yousef wore to Manchester Grammar School, and it’s a poignant reminder of everything we lost when Yousef was stabbed to death in March 2019, aged just 17.There were 11 years between Yousef and me.
When our mum Debbie got together with Yousef’s dad, Ghaleb, I always begged her for a little brother. I adored Yousef from the moment he was born. We all did.
It was clear from an early age that he was very bright. His teachers said he was so clever the staff were having to do extra training to keep up. We were all thrilled when he received a scholarship to the nearby Manchester Grammar School, a prestigious private school.
Mum was single by then and had rheumatoid arthritis, but she scrimped to buy the expensive school uniform and was full of pride when Yousef quickly became an A star student. He didn’t just excel at his studies, he was sporty too, playing basketball, football and tennis. And he loved boxing.
He made some great friends, among them Adam Chowdhary, who was from a wealthy family like most of his friends. When Yousef went out in the evenings, Mum never worried because he visited the well-to-do areas and she thought he’d be safer there than in Burnage where we lived. At 17, he was planning his future and hoped to go to Oxford or Cambridge to study medicine and perhaps become a
.The man who killed the mother of reality star Chanelle Hayes will stay behind bars after the Parole Board decided he should not be released. Keith Pollard’s request to be moved to an open prison was also rejected.
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