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A 20-year-old university student was stabbed to death in Oxford Street, close to De Montfort University's Innovation Centre in Leicester, shortly after 5pm on 3 February 2026. A 19-year-old student at a different Leicester university went on trial for his murder at Leicester Crown Court on 10 August 2026, denying charges that also included possessing a bladed article and failing to provide the PIN for his phone. On 25 August 2026, after a two-week trial, the jury found him not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, of having an offensive weapon and of failing to provide the PIN. He was sentenced the same day to a total of 10 years' imprisonment. Passing sentence, the judge said the defendant had developed a "seething resentment" towards the victim, and told him: "You took a knife to the fight, you used it, this was not a one-off thrust of the knife but five separate applications and it should have been obvious to you this carried a high risk of serious harm." Opening the prosecution case, counsel for the Crown told the jury that the two men had known each other from online gaming and had fallen out over money the defendant believed he was owed, including over a watch the victim had given him to sell which turned out to be a counterfeit. The Crown alleges the defendant attacked the victim in the street over that perceived debt. The jury was told the encounter lasted seconds and was captured on dashcam footage, that the victim was stabbed five times in the chest, and that one wound, 13cm deep, penetrated his heart and caused his death. Four other chest wounds did not contribute to death and a defensive wound was found on his hand. He collapsed in the street and never regained consciousness. A passing driver stopped to help him.
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- judicial_status raised from on_trial to convicted following the verdict and sentence at Leicester Crown Court on 25 August 2026: the defendant was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 10 years. The defendant's age is corrected from 18 to 19, as reported at conviction. Two follow-up sources added; merged from the duplicate draft opened as GitHub issue #696.
- crime_category corrected from attempted_homicide to homicide: the victim died of his injuries and the defendant is charged with murder. incident_date corrected from the article publication date 2026-08-10 to 2026-02-03, the date of the stabbing. judicial_status raised from alleged to on_trial, the trial having opened at Leicester Crown Court. Placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Leicester city centroid [52.6369, -1.1398].