Joshua Molnar, a private schoolboy who stabbed his pal, Yousef Makki, to death, made headlines after the case got featured on Channel 4 documentary “Killed by a Rich Kid”.
Police were called to a stabbing in Hale Barns, a posh town in Greater Manchester, in March 2019. Yousef Makki was found on the floor with a stab wound to the chest, with Joshua Molnar applying pressure to the wound with his t-shirt.
It was captured on police bodycam footage as 17-year-old Yousef Makki lay dying after being stabbed by a wealthy family friend. Makki would be pronounced dead in the hospital, and Molnar would face charges for the murder.
The police footage was released for the first time in the documentary ‘Killed By A Rich Kid,’ concerning Yousef’s killing in an affluent neighborhood of south Manchester in 2019.
Who Are Joshua Molnar Parents? Father And Mother Of Suspect In Yousef Makki Murder
The parents of the private schoolboy, Joshua Molnar, formerly of Cheadle Hume School, are Stephanie Molnar and Mark Molnar.
Molnar’s mother, Stephanie, 51, is a co-founder of a Cheshire nursery firm. Mark Molnar, Josh’s 56-year-old father, and a maths graduate work as a corporate director and business consultant.
Molnar initially told the police he didn’t know who had stabbed his friend in a conversation captured on the bodycam footage. Molnar would subsequently admit to being the perpetrator, claiming that he acted in self-defense.
Joshua Molnar Sentence Explained In Killed By A Rich Kid Series
Joshua Molnar claimed he acted in self-defense, and he was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges in Yousef’s death at trial explained in the series “Killed By A Rich Kid”.
For possessing a knife and perverting the course of justice, he got sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders institution. Molnar claimed he was pressured by his peers to carry a weapon, and video evidence shows him waving a machete on another occasion.
Joshua was released in February 2020, but authorities discovered an iPhone in his bedroom that had been robbed in a violent mugging in June of the previous year.
Where Is Joshua Molnar Now?
Joshua Molnar served eight months at the juvenile offender’s institute before being released in February 2020.
Despite being found not guilty of Yousef’s murder, Molnar, a former pupil at Cheadle Hulme School, was sentenced to a 16-month detention and training order for possessing a knife in a public area and perverting the course of justice by lying to the police officials at the crime scene.
The judge told him that he needed to stay out of trouble for a year. However, the hearing heard that since being released from detention, he has made “significant progress” and “impressed” the youth justice system.