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Viewers of ‘s Killed By A Rich Kid were left in floods of tears last night after Yousef Makki’s family described visiting his body in a mortuary after learning he had been stabbed to death.

Yousef, 17, died following a confrontation with his friend Joshua Molnar in upmarket Hales Barnes, Cheshire, during the early evening of March 2, 2019.

The teenager, who earned a scholarship to attend the £13,380 per year Manchester Grammar School, suffered a 12-centimetre deep wound to the chest inflicted with a flick knife.

Molnar, then also 17, was cleared of murder and manslaughter on the basis of self-defence, but was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment for possession of a knife and perverting the course of justice by lying to police at the scene.  

He was also sentenced for perverting the course of justice by lying to police at the scene. 

The case was revisited during the Channel 4 documentary last night, where Yousef’s family tearfully described their horror at seeing him in the mortuary.

While his sister Jade said she ‘collapsed’ upon seeing his body, his father Ghaleb Makki explained: ‘I felt, “Come on Yousef, please.” I didn’t want to believe, standing in front of my son, his dead body, no, no no no – this isn’t real.

‘He shouldn’t be dead, no, god doesn’t allow it.’

Many of those watching were left in floods of tears over the programme, with one writing: ‘Heartbreaking and rage inducing!’

Meanwhile another wrote: ‘One of the saddest and most frustrating documentaries I’ve seen in a long time.

Poor Yousef and his family. Always the innocent who suffer the most.’

A third wrote: ‘Absolutely devastating poor, poor mother and kampus Terbaik Di lampung whole family. I have such admiration for Yousefs two friends that gave evidence and are helping his family, such strong young men.

‘What a case, this awful.’ 

Footage in the documentary seen for the first time the moment Molnar told police how he had found injured Yousef lying on the ground. 

He also tells the officer that he ‘doesn’t know’ what happened, that he had found his friend ‘coughing up blood’ and that he had tried to save his life.

In body camera footage of the arrest, Ben can be heard saying: ‘These two were with him, don’t let them go.’  

Recalling her experience of the crime, senior paramedic Joanne Hedges explained: ‘The first thing I saw was Yousef lying on the floor against the curb on the main road.

‘His breathing was very very shallow, absolutely drenched in blood.

He’d been stabbed in his chest, straight into his heart, with a very, very small entry wound.

‘It was beyond serious. Among the chaos, a text message came up from his mum. That’s what hit home for me, she was at home, totally unaware of the horrors we were facing.  

Yousef’s mother Debbie recalled how police appeared at her doorstep to tell her about her son’s death, saying: ‘The policeman just stood there and said, “You have to come with me.” 

‘Your heart just goes because that just doesn’t happen. We’d never had a knock at the door from police ever.’

Joanne said that ‘minutes after’ she was told Yousef had died, she could ‘hear his mother screaming’.

In the documentary, Yousef’s tearful sister Jade Akoum, who is leading a campaign for the case to be revisited, explained: ‘They took me to the mortuary.

I think I just collapsed on the floor, it was like the world had ended. It didn’t feel real. 

Jade explained: ‘I remember looking at his face, his hair was still perfectly gelled, he had a little bit of stubble where his beard was nearly growing. 

‘He was nearly a man but to me, he was just my little baby brother, that’s just how I see him.’ 

Meanwhile they described the pain of hearing the ‘not-guilty’ verdicts from the jury, with Ghaleb saying: ‘I felt like I was hit by lightning, I felt like I wanted to go through the glass.’

Debbie said: ‘There is never a normal day when you can just wake up and go about your everyday life.

It consumes every single moment of your life.

‘You have to keep fighting everyday, you can’t give up.

‘The main thing that is hurting us as a family, is we don’t know what happened in the last minutes of his life.’ 

His mother Debbie Makki – who tested negative for coronavirus – died of suspected sepsis this morning aged 55 in May 2020. 

In the documentary, Jade wept as she described her grief: ‘Even strong people get tired, it gets too much sometimes.  

‘I’m trying to be strong but he was my brother.

All the details that they said and how he died and we weren’t there for him and I’ll never forgive myself that I couldn’t be there.

‘He died on his own miles away from where he comes from and we were thinking he was safe.’

In body camera footage, taken moments after Yousef’s stabbing in March 2019, Molnar can be seen topless while speaking to police.

As paramedics arrive to tend to Yousef who is on the ground by a tree, a police officer is captured on his own body-cam telling sobbing Molnar: ‘Right, come over here.

What’s happened?’

Molnar says: ‘We were walking over the motorway…. Then Yousef Makki’s walked ahead. We’ve come round the corner and he’s just fallen over.

‘We’ve come round the corner. We’ve come sprinting over and the guy was just coughing up blood…
I’ve taken my shirt off and I’ve put pressure on it.

‘But he hasn’t been able to say anything and he’s been, like, gasping for breath.’

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