Schoolboy's killers stabbed inmate in jail - court

Jovani Harriott, left, and Jakele Pusey were both jailed for life in 2023

Two teenage killers stabbed a fellow inmate in prison six months after being jailed for murdering a 15-year-old boy as he walked home from school.

Cousins Jovani Harriott, 19, and Jakele Pusey, 17, were detained for life in 2023 after stabbing to death Khayri Mclean outside North Huddersfield Trust School in 2022.

Leeds Crown Court heard earlier that six months after being sentenced for the murder, the pair were together at HMP Wetherby when they and two other teenagers launched a group attack on another prisoner in the gym.

Pusey and Harriott both pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and possession of a knife in prison.

Harriott and Pusey were given minimum terms of 16 and 18 years, respectively, for the schoolboy's killing.

The pair had lain in wait for Khayri outside his Huddersfield school, wearing masks and carrying large knives, before attacking him in front of other pupils.

Khayri Mclean died after he was stabbed near North Huddersfield Trust School in September 2022

The court heard footage of the prison attack in November 2023 showed Harriott and Pusey standing against the gym wall, watching the victim while he was working out.

As he knelt on the bench to do some weights, one of their co-defendants, who the judge said could not be named as he is 17 and has never been identified publicly, hit the victim in the face.

The court heard it appeared to be the trigger for the planned attack, as within a split second of the punch, Pusey and Harriott came off the wall and started to punch the victim.

The three of them chased him across the gym floor into a corner and punched, kicked and stamped on him. Pusey and Harriott also stabbed him with improvised weapons.

A judge heard that a fourth person, Thomas Murray, 18, joined in the attack, which lasted just under a minute before it was broken up by security staff.

The court heard it was unclear what the cause of the attack was, but the victim appeared to have "beef" with the 17-year-old who threw the first punch.

In mitigation for Pusey, the court heard at that early point in his sentence, he had not engaged with psychiatrists and had now "started to make progress in terms of starting to think about why these offences have been committed".

The judge heard Harriott is to undertake an anger management course and that "a great deal can change" before he is in his 30s and can be considered for release.

Pusey, who was 16 at the time, was sentenced to 32 months in prison, on top of his sentence for murdering Khayri.

A judge lifted a reporting restriction that prevented him from being identified due to his age, saying he had already been named in the murder case.

Harriott, who was 18 at the time, was sentenced to a further 38 months in prison.

Murray, who, like Pusey and Harriott, pleaded guilty to a Section 18 assault causing grievous bodily harm, was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment.

The 17-year-old, who pleaded guilty to a Section 20 assault, was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment.

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