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A sixteen year-old boy has been arrested under suspicion of the murder of 16 year-old student Conor Black in Manchester two weeks ago after a party. The youth denies responsibility.
Conor, also 16, was knifed once in the shoulder as he left the gathering in the early hours of Saturday morning. He died on his way to hospital.
The teenager charged with his murder, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to appear before Manchester City Magistrates Court today.
Conor, a joinery student and budding rapper, was knifed from behind after reportedly attending a rowdy party where he was embroiled in a petty squabble.
A hooded figure was seen running from where Conor was found, on a patch of grass near a main road in Harpurhey.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "Conor was killed on Moston Lane by a single stab wound to his upper left shoulder.
"Paramedics tried to treat Conor for a puncture wound, but he died on the way to hospital."
A memorial to Conor, who was known to police, is continuing to grow near the crime scene.
Floral tributes and cards were left at a tree along with teddy bears, cards and a football.
Conor's mother Anita, with whom he lived on the Lightbowne estate, has been too upset to speak.
Though the post-mortem examination results have not been officially released it is believed Conor was stabbed through the aorta - the largest artery in the body
A fifteen year-old boy has been remanded in custody suspected of murder after 16 year-old Luke Howard was stabbed "up to twelve times" after a party in Old Swan, Liverpool in the same weekend.
[q url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7591548.stm] A 16-year-old boy who was attacked in a row at a party in Liverpool suffered 12 stab wounds, a court heard.Luke Howard was found injured at a house on Ashcombe Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, on Saturday morning and died later in hospital.
A 15-year-old boy was remanded in custody by Liverpool Youth Court on Monday charged with murder.
The court was told that post-mortem tests showed Luke was stabbed in his back, abdomen and head.
Angela Rowan, prosecuting, said a home office pathologist had concluded the fatal wound had been a stabbing which pierced the abdomen and caused the teenager to suffer shock and haemorrhaging.[/q]
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The UK's bloody knife statistics amongst teenagers rose this weekend to 22 so far this year, with a 16 year-old and 17 year-old viciously murdered.
Knife crime claimed another two teenagers’ lives yesterday as a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were stabbed to death in separate attacks.
The younger victim, Conor Black, died from a single wound to the shoulder outside a house party in Manchester in the early hours of the morning.
The 17-year-old, Nilanthan Moorty, was stabbed to death in South London after apparently being caught up in a clash between rival gangs.
His death brings the number of teenagers murdered so far this year in the capital to 23. Eighteen of those were stabbed.
Nilanthan Moorty, 17, of Croydon was attacked 18th August by a man having a row with a taxi driver who then turned his attention to Milanthan sitting at the back of a cab nearby apparently quite randomly in a racsist rant, witnesses say.
[q url="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=269796&in_page_id=34"] The white man in his 30s started shouting 'You f****** Indians, you f****** P***s' before being driven away, his friends claimed last night. But he came back and stabbed British-born Nilanthan in the neck at 1am in Croydon, South London, The Sun reported[/q]
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