Episode 11: Ibrahima Seck

On a summer evening in New Moston in 2025, fourteen-year-old Ibrahima Seck left home to play football with his friends. Minutes later, a brief confrontation between two groups of teenagers spiralled into a fatal chase, ending with a single stab wound in a local car park. Bleeding and terrified, Ibrahima reached a nearby house and pleaded for help, telling strangers, “I don’t want to die.” Despite their efforts and the rapid arrival of emergency services, he would not survive. In the hours that followed, his attackers fled and boasted of what they had done. Within days, police had traced their movements through CCTV and phone evidence, leading to arrests, charges and a complex trial that would test the law’s approach to shared responsibility for violence. This episode tells the full story of Ibrahima Seck: the ordinary afternoon that turned deadly, the investigation that pieced together the truth, the courtroom battle over murder and manslaughter, and the lasting impact on a grieving family and shaken community. A deeply human account of loss, accountability and the devastating speed with which a single knife can change everything.