Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: Yousef Makki
Garden Court North’s Pete Weatherby KC will be speaking at the University of Manchester’s ‘Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A Panel Event’ on Monday 17 November 2025.
The panel centres on the case of Yousef Makki, a 17-year-old boy who was killed in a suburb of Manchester in 2019, and his sister Jade Akoum, who led the campaign for a fresh inquest into his death. It will take place from 5-7pm in the Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road.
Pete represented Yousef’s family at the original inquest, the subsequent judicial review which quashed the inquest’s failure to reach conclusions, and at the fresh inquest which concluded that Yousef was unlawfully killed.
Pete will appear alongside Jade Akoum, The Guardian’s David Conn, Professor Eithne Quinn from the University of Manchester, and Dr Patrick Williams from Harm to Healing Coalition.
The University of Manchester’s School of Law and School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are co-hosting the panel alongside Creative Manchester and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CODE).
Tickets are available here.
When: 17 Nov 2025
Where: Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Start time: 17:00
End time: 19:00
