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Teenagers Jailed for Schoolboy Murder Handed Extra Terms Over Prison Knife Attack

Leeds Crown Court extended their sentences following a gym attack at HMP Wetherby in which four teenage inmates inflicted over 20 stab wounds on a fellow prisoner

Overview

  • Jakele Pusey received an additional 32-month term for grievous bodily harm and knife possession in custody on top of his life sentence for Khayri Mclean’s murder
  • Jovani Harriott was handed a further 38 months after pleading guilty to the same charges
  • Thomas Murray was sentenced to 30 months and an unnamed 17-year-old received 36 months for their roles in the November 2023 gym assault
  • Court footage showed the group using improvised weapons to stab the victim more than 20 times across his arm, lower back and head during an attack lasting under a minute
  • Judge Ray Singh lifted the reporting restriction on Pusey’s identity, noting he had already been publicly named in the original murder trial