Two teenage cousins who stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death as he walked home from school in West Yorkshire have been given life sentences.
Jovani Harriott, 17, and Jakele Pusey, 15, murdered Khayri McLean after ambushing him outside North Huddersfield Trust School last year.
Khayri’s mother pleaded for an end to violence as her son’s killers were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court.
Harriott must service at least 18 years and Pusey a minimum of 16.
Khayri’s family and friends, who wore T-shirts emblazoned with his picture in court, clapped as a judge lifted an order which had banned the reporting of his killer’s identities.
In a statement read out in court, his mother Charlie Mclean described how she rushed to the scene after she heard her son had been injured and watched “helplessly” as paramedics fought to save her son’s life.
She said she had been “living a nightmare” since her son’s death, adding: “No parent should have to contemplate this, let alone witness it.”
The judge, Mrs Justice Farbey, said the cousins had seen Khayri as their “enemy” and may have killed him in “revenge” for sharing a video online about a broken window at Harriott’s mother’s house.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC said Khayri was fatally stabbed on 21 September in a “well-planned” attack.
Dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, the defendants waited in an alleyway before ambushing him as he walked along Woodhouse Hill with friends after school, the court heard.
Pusey shouted Khayri’s name before stabbing him in the heart with a 30cm blade. His cousin, who was 16 at the time of the attack, then knifed Khayri in the leg.
Khayri was pulled to his feet by his friends and tried to run away but collapsed. He died later in hospital.
