Yousef Ghaleb Makki who was stabbed to death in Hale Barns, Cheshire, on Saturday
The heartbroken aunt of the private schoolboy knifed to death in a suburban street told last night of her struggle to come to terms with his death.
Desiree Makki, who lives in Lebanon, said she could not understand how Yousef Makki was killed in a ‘very safe country’ where there is no war.
The gifted student, 17, died in the wealthy Cheshire village of Hale Barns on Saturday. His exceptional ability meant he had won a scholarship to the prestigious Manchester Grammar School.
He had been studying four A-levels and had hopes of studying medicine and becoming a heart surgeon when he was murdered.
Holding back tears, Mrs Makki said: ‘How has Yousef gone? How has he gone, and in a very safe country?
‘A country that respects humans. I don’t know. He doesn’t deserve to go this way, especially in Britain. There is no war.’
Mrs Makki said her brother – Yousef’s father Ghaleb, who moved to Britain from Beirut 20 years ago – would always say: ‘Sister, come, come, it is safe here’.
Yousef poses in Lebanese colours. He wanted to study medicine and become a heart surgeon
Police at the scene in Hale Barns on Sunday after the stabbing of the 17-year-old schoolboy
She added: ‘I have children here and I fear for them in Lebanon. There’s always security issues with Israel.
‘I always wanted to go to Britain. I would tell Mazen (Yousef’s 15-year-old brother) I wish I could take my kids and bring them over to you guys.’
Last night Greater Manchester Police said a 17-year-old boy had been charged with Yousef's murder.
He has also been charged with possession of a bladed article. A second 17-year-old boy has been charged with assisting an offender and possession of a bladed article.
The boys, neither of whom can be named due to their age, were kept in custody overnight to appear before youth court in Manchester this morning.
It comes as a man was arrested in Leicester over the murder of Jodie Chesney, who was stabbed in a park in east London on Friday.
The 17-year-old Explorer Scout was murdered in a random and unprovoked attack as she sat with her boyfriend and three other friends in a park in Harold Hill.
The arrest came after police received a tip-off the suspects travelled to the east Midlands - nearly 115 miles away - following the brutal stabbing.
The man, whose age has not been given, has been taken back to London for interview.
Twenty people – including Jaden Moodie, who was just 14 – have been murdered in London in the first three months of 2019
Desiree Makki's aunt, Mrs Makki added: ‘He was a very special person.
'Yousef from when he was a young kid he was a very smart child, very conscientious, from the day he was born.
‘When he was 11 he got a scholarship to study at Manchester Grammar School.
‘He wanted to be someone. Even at home he was always creating things. He always wanted to do something, he was very smart and intelligent. He was very affectionate.
‘He was in his last year at school and he wanted to apply for medicine and his dream was to be a heart surgeon.’
Mrs Makki said Yousef – who lived with his father and mother Deborah in Burnage, Manchester – would often visit Lebanon and ‘really loved’ the small Middle Eastern country, which has recovered from a devastating civil war during the 1970s and 1980s.
On his Facebook profile, Yousef even referred to himself as being from the country, although he and his mother were born in Manchester.
She added: ‘His parents got married in the UK but would come back to visit. Sometimes the boys would also come alone.
‘He’s not a memory, he will be with us forever. The (police) investigation is under way but I want you to shed light on the fact that Yousef was not given the chance to live the life he deserved.
‘He was not able to achieve the things he would have achieved. Please shed light on Yousef’s personality. How conscientious and affectionate he was.’
A teenager suspected of inflicting the fatal wound lives two miles away in Hale with his parents who have both established successful businesses.
The second teenager lives with his father – also a successful businessman – and mother in a large, gated property just a few streets from where Yousef bled to death and, like the other two boys, attends private school.
People walk past flowers laid for the teenager outside Manchester Grammar School yesterday
Britain's most senior police officer, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, clashed with the Prime Minister on the issue, insisting there is 'obviously' a connection between reductions in officer numbers and street violence. She also refused to rule out calling in the Army to help.
Police officer numbers in England and Wales have dropped by more than 20,000 since 2010, while levels of violent crime have risen in recent years, and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said the military would be 'ready to help' play a part in tackling knife crime.
Ms Dick told LBC: 'If you went back in history, you would see examples of when police officer numbers have gone down and crime has not necessarily risen at the same rate and in the same way.
'But I think that what we all agree on is that, in the last few years, police officer numbers have gone down a lot, there's been a lot of other cuts in public services, there has been more demand for policing and therefore there must be something, and I have consistently said that.
'I'm basically famous now': The innocent caption Jodie Chesney posted on the day she visited 10 Downing Street months before she was brutally stabbed in the back in a park in Romford
'I agree that there is some link between violent crime on the streets obviously and police numbers, of course there is and everybody would see that.'
Asked if he thought the British military could help play a part in tackling knife crime, Mr Williamson told the Press Association the armed forces and Ministry of Defence 'always stands ready to help any government department'.
Mr Williamson said they have had no requests for assistance but 'would always be ready to respond'.
'As we look at all of this, obviously our thoughts and prayers are with those family and friends of those who have lost someone,' he said.
'I know that the Home Secretary is looking very closely at how he can ensure that everything is done to tackle this problem at the moment.'
At a Cabinet meeting on the issue of knife crime on Tuesday, Mrs May said the killings of Jodie and Yousef last week were 'absolutely appalling' and told ministers her thoughts and sympathies were with the teenagers' families.
Her official spokesman said she had tasked the Home Office with co-ordinating an urgent series of Cabinet-level ministerial meetings and engagements to accelerate the work Government is doing to support local councils and police.
Mrs May said the problem would require 'a whole-of-Government effort, in conjunction with the police, the wider public sector and local communities'.
Meetings will take place 'as soon as possible' and were being treated as 'a priority' by the PM, said her spokesman.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Tuesday evening: 'Since 2010, we've seen 21,000 police officers taken off our streets and 760 youth centres closed.
'We've experienced the tearing of the social fabric of our communities.
'The Prime Minister says there is no link between cuts to our police and soaring levels of violent crime.
'She needs to listen to grieving families, police chiefs across the country and her own Home Secretary, and the communities decimated by cuts.
'Young people shouldn't pay the price for austerity with their lives.'
Police figures show violent crime rose by nearly a fifth in the year to September 2018, intensifying the debate over whether the increase is linked to falling officer numbers.
Chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Sara Thornton, who will attend Wednesday's meeting, and Labour former minister Vernon Coaker called for the issue to be treated as 'a national emergency'.
Several MPs, including a former Home Office minister, have called for the Government to convene a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid will today meet police chiefs amid claims of a national knife crime emergency.
Senior officers from seven of the forces most affected by violent crime - the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, South Wales, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire - will attend Wednesday's meeting.
Mr Javid is reported to have demanded the Treasury for more money to tackle the issue.
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Yousef Ghaleb Makki who was stabbed to death in Hale Barns, Cheshire, on Saturday
The heartbroken aunt of the private schoolboy knifed to death in a suburban street told last night of her struggle to come to terms with his death.
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