A music producer was jailed for stabbing another student eight times over a joke about a skateboard.
Shiloh Pottinger, pictured right, had reacted ‘violently and unpredictably’ towards Luke O’Connor, pictured left Luke O’Connor, 19, was killed with a 13-inch ‘mafia stiletto’ knife on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield, south Manchester, last year.
Luke’s mother Carolyn O’Connor looked directly at Pottinger in the dock as she told the court: ‘I refuse your name to pass my lips because you don’t deserve it. Luke was the man you will never be.His father Jason, a senior tech firm manager, said knives like the one used on his son had no place ‘in a civilised society’.
London BIMM university student Pottinger reacted ‘pathetically’ to the remark and started making threats of violence.Pottinger, who was 19 at the time, initially used his skateboard to attack Manchester Metropolitan University student Luke, then stabbed him with the blade eight times before fleeing.
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