Boy, 15, who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school named and pictured

He is due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court today after being found guilty of murder in August.

Trial judge, Justice Ellenbogen, told the court she had to balance the need to fully report a very serious case with the welfare of the defendant, who turns 16 next month, as she considered lifting the ban.

The judge said: "This was a serious crime carried out by one pupil on another on school property with a knife he brought into school.

"It was witnessed to varying degrees by other pupils and teachers.

"The public will wish to know the identity of those who commit such offences in seeking to understand how it is a child of that age can do so."

Mr Willgoose died after being stabbed in the heart at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

Khan had taken a hunting knife to school and attacked the teenager in front of horrified children.

Sheffield Crown Court heard how other pupils fled "in fear and panic", some locking themselves in a cupboard.

The jury in Khan’s trial was shown CCTV footage of the incident, which showed how he stabbed Harvey twice.

One of these blows cut through one of his ribs and pierced his heart.

Jurors heard how Khan told All Saints’ headteacher immediately after the stabbing: "I’m not right in the head. My mum doesn’t look after me right."

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The school’s assistant head took the knife from the defendant and heard him say "you know I can’t control it", which the teacher took to be a reference to his anger issues, given previous incidents of violent behaviour at school.

The jury was told how Mr Willgoose and Khan fell out following an incident in the school on January 29, five days before the fatal stabbing.

On that day, Khan had tried to intervene in an altercation involving two other boys and had to be restrained by a teacher.

When he claimed one of these boys had a knife, a lockdown was declared and police were called, although no weapon was found.

Mr Willgoose was not at school that day and stayed off for the rest of the week, texting his dad: "Am not going in that school while people have knives."

Over the weekend before the stabbing, the two teens had fallen out on social media, with each siding with a different boy involved in the lockdown incident.

When Khan returned to school on February 3, he was asked by a member of staff whether he had anything he should not and said he did not.

The jury has heard about a series of encounters between Mr Willgoose and Khan that morning, before the defendant pulled out the knife and used it just after the start of the lunch break, which began at 12.10pm.

The court was shown images and video found on the defendant’s phone, which captured him posing with knives and other weapons and was told how he had used search terms relating to weapons on the internet.

Khan told the court how he decided to carry a knife for protection as he feared other teenagers who he believed were carrying weapons.

His barrister, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, told the jury that the defendant "snapped" after years of bullying and "an intense period of fear at school".

Since Mr Willgoose's death, his family have campaigned against knife crime with a particular focus on getting knife arches into schools.

After the defendant was convicted, his sister, Sophie Willgoose, said outside court: "Harvey was full of life, warm, funny and caring with a unique ability to bring people together.

"He was deeply loved by his family, cherished by his friends, and respected by all who knew him."

"This tragedy has not only devastated our family, but has rippled across the country," she added.

"People everywhere continue to grieve the loss of our beautiful boy."

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