High School Stabbing - Harvey’s Killer Named and Jailed
The Trial
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The killer of schoolboy Harvey Willgoose has been named and jailed. Umar Khan was 15 when he stabbed Harvey during the school lunch break in February this year. Today, as he was sent to prison for 16 years, his identity was revealed for the first time. In this episode Caroline and Jack have all the details from Sheffield Crown Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Trial U.K. High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm Jack Hardy. Today, a schoolboy aged just 15 has been jailed for 16 years for the murder of a fellow pupil. |
| 0:18.3 | Harvey Will Goose was also 15 when he was stabbed during the lunch break |
| 0:21.4 | in a school in Sheffield. He died within minutes and today his parents watched as his killer |
| 0:25.8 | was sent to prison. That killer has now been named as Muhammad Umar Khan. He was in the same year |
| 0:31.5 | as Harvey at school. Speaking to the court today in her victim impact statement, Harvey's sister, |
| 0:36.7 | Sophie, said the family's |
| 0:37.8 | world had been shattered when Harvey was killed in the most cruel and inhumane way. |
| 0:42.5 | And in her comments, which were live streamed as she imposed the sentence on Umar Khan, |
| 0:47.1 | the judge said he had not acted in self-defense and he knew the dangers when he took a hunting |
| 0:52.7 | knife into school. |
| 0:56.9 | But she said he now has the chance of rehabilitation. |
| 1:01.8 | Today, Jack and I have all of the key moments from this case at Sheffield Crown Court. |
| 1:05.7 | Welcome to episode 13. Harvey's killer named and jailed. Thank you. So today, a hugely significant day in Sheffield. |
| 1:30.3 | Jack, you and I have been in court all day, at Sheffield Crown Court. |
| 1:33.2 | It's taken several hours to get to the point of sentencing. |
| 1:36.9 | We're recording within about 45 minutes of the judge making her comments, |
| 1:40.3 | which were live streamed across Sky and YouTube and various other outlets. And we've |
| 1:45.0 | come to a rather echoy room near the court just so we can get our podcast recorded as quickly as |
| 1:50.3 | we can. So apologies in advance if we sound a little bit echoy in here today. But we do want to |
| 1:55.7 | bring you this episode as soon as we could because there is no doubt about the ramifications |
| 2:00.7 | of what's happened |
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