Kennie died in Stretford in January last year
Nine teenagers charged with murdering 16-year-old Kennie Carter could go on trial next year. Kennie died in hospital after being stabbed in Stretford, Trafford, in January last year. Police have charged nine teenagers with murder and manslaughter following an investigation by GMP's Major Incident Team.
They appeared at Manchester Magistrates Court on Tuesday , and today their case was heard at Manchester Crown Court by the Honorary Recorder of Manchester, Judge Nicholas Dean KC. Jabriel Ferguson, 18, of School Walk Old Trafford, and Rashaun Williams, also 18, of Manor Grove in Stafford, have been charged with murder and manslaughter. Seven other boys, two of them aged 14, three aged 15, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, have also been charged with the same offences. They cannot be named for legal reasons.
READ MORE: Drug dealers 'with links to Albanian crime gang' smuggled in £11m of cocaine with banana shipmentThe nine accused were excused from having to attend the short court hearing this afternoon. Prosecutor Jaime Hamilton KC and defence barristers addressed the judge on administrative matters.Speaking in July on what would have been Kennie's 17th birthday, his mum Joan Dixon said: "I know he's not a baby but to me he's a baby, he's my youngest of four.
"Every day is the same thing, we'll sit there, and I'm sat on the edge of my chair every day, and it's as if I'm waiting for something every day - to be told there's been a breakthrough or something. I still even think he's gonna walk through the door and it's all been just a real vile trick that's been played."
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