A youth of Hungarian origin stabbing his friend to death in Manchester

Joshua Molnar stabbed his 17-year-old friend, Yousef Makki, to death in March. They had both gone to reputed private schools in Manchester, became friends in the suburbs of the city before colliding with knives because of a drug issue. 

According to Index, at the court, Joshua said that he stabbed Yousef by accident when he had taken out his pocket knife to defend himself. At the end of the 4-week series of trials, he was released in June, and according to the verdict, he has to attend a disciplinary programme for 16 months. 

The crime was published in the press in March, but the name of the criminal has been revealed only recently because he turned 18 years old on Tuesday. Joshua thought himself to be a wealthy gangster of the middle class.

Joshua’s mother, Stephanie Molnar, is the manager of private nurseries and kindergartens, while his father, Mark Laszlo Molnar, is a consultant. The particularly wealthy parents could afford financing private school for their son – they had to change from time to time because of Joshua’s integration difficulties. Learning was not easy for him, and at the age of 13, his parents got divorced. There were times when they did not look after the boy at all – they did not even notice that he disappeared from home. He had joined different gangs, and at the age of 15, he started to smoke weed. 

It was “socially accepted” because most of his friends smoked weed,

said Joshua at his trial.

 Last time, he was fired from school – officially, he left the school based on a mutual agreement because they found marihuana in his school bag. 

The other “passion” of the boy was knives. He loved posing with them in “drill” videos where he was often rapping while flailing a knife in his hand –

he imagined himself as a gangster of the middle class.

Drill is a very violent and wild subgenre of hip-hop, originating from Chicago. This style is gaining popularity also in the UK and encourages the youth to follow a violent lifestyle connected to crime and drug trade. You can watch one of the videos of this style below:

In many videos, they rap about killing others, and they excite certain gangs against each other. According to a hip-hop expert,

social media has the responsibility for transplanting these threats and messages in real life. 

One of the last drill videos of Joshua was recorded during the trial of the murder of Yousef. To the word “shank” he imitates stabbing, The Telegraph reports.