Overview
- Mrs Justice Ellenbogen removed Khan’s anonymity at Sheffield Crown Court and said the case warranted open justice, indicating a significant minimum prison term will follow.
- Harvey Willgoose, 15, was stabbed twice during the lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School, with one blow piercing his heart as other pupils witnessed the attack.
- Jurors saw CCTV of the confrontation and heard that Khan had taken a hunting knife to school, then told staff afterward, “I’m not right in the head,” before surrendering the weapon.
- Trial evidence included images and videos on Khan’s phone of him posing with weapons and internet searches about knives, alongside references to a school lockdown incident five days earlier.
- The defence argued Khan snapped after bullying and fear of other teenagers carrying weapons, while prosecutors described purposeful aggression; Harvey’s family continue campaigns for knife-arches in schools.