Huddersfield school stabbing: Tearful girlfriend of Khayri McLean’s ‘heart shattered’ when she learned of his ‘murder’

THE girlfriend of a teen boy stabbed to death outside his school said her heart shattered when she heard he died. 

Tearful Shyana James, 16, called Khayri McLean “a really nice boy” and said: “I can’t think of any reason why someone would do this to him.”

Khayri died yesterday after he was said to have been pinned to the ground and repeatedly knifed by a masked attacker near North Huddersfield Trust School.

Shyana, who dated him for six months but knew him for five years, said: ”Khayri was a really nice boy. I met him through school. He liked playing football for school.

“I was in college and my friend was on a bus coming home and she told me, she phoned me and told me Khayri had been stabbed,” she said.

“My heart just shattered. I phoned a taxi from town and came up, but it was taped up and I couldn’t do anything.

“I saw Khayri on the pavement with the paramedics working on him and then when the air ambulance took him to Leeds General Infirmary my mum drove me there.

“I have no idea why he has been stabbed. I can’t think of any reason why someone would do this to him.”

Her mum Sherrin, 35, said the pair were "literally inseparable", adding: "He was her first proper boyfriend. She absolutely adored him and he absolutely adored her."

Mum Marcia McLean was being comforted by family and friends at her semi-detached home in Bradley Boulevard, an eight minute walk from where Khayri was stabbed.

She is understood to have gone to the spot where her boy was attacked this morning. She knelt down on the ground and was visibly completely overcome with emotion.

A 16-year-old boy has since been arrested on suspicion of murder, West Yorkshire Police said.

Friends and classmates have paid tribute to Khayri, while his headteacher has also released a statement following the tragedy.

Charley Burrows wrote on Facebook: "Stabbed in the street after school. Practically on our doorstep.