Boy, 16, accused of stabbing teenager to death says he acted in 'self defence'

A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing another teenager to death told police he acted in “self-defence”, a court has heard. Coby Tristram, 18, was fatally stabbed after an incident around Abingdon Avenue in Whitefield on March 28 this year. A trial at Manchester Crown Court heard a police interview with Charlie Harrison, 21, read by prosecutor Jamie Hamilton KC with a police officer’s help, who had been in attendance.

In his interview, Harrison said: “I can see him stood at the entrance of the ginnel, I’ve seen he’s frantic, seen things have gone wrong yeah?” He added: “He said ‘I’ve been stabbed, I’ve stabbed, I’ve been stabbed’, and I’m saying 'by who, by who, by who'. CSI officers at work (Image: Newsquest) “He’s not saying. He’s in shock, yeah?” In the police interview, carried out on March 29, Harrison said that he had “never seen so much blood” in his life.

Harrison said that Mr Tristram was “like a really chill kid, a chill guy so I knew something was wrong". He told the detectives that Mr Tristram did not owe anyone any money and did not have “any issue” with anyone and so did not know why anyone would attack him like that. Harrison said that he may have seen a “kid running in the distance” all dressed in black after Mr Tristram was stabbed.

He told the officers that he himself had “no issue with anyone” and that if they found a knife in the area it would not have his fingerprints or DNA on it. But Mr Hamilton told .