A student who stabbed his former friend through the heart after an argument about a fake Rolex watch has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
A jury at Leicester Crown Court found Harper Dennis, 19, not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, having an offensive weapon and failing to provide the PIN to his phone on Tuesday.
The court heard that Dennis plunged a knife into the chest of Khaleed Oladipo, 20, five times while near De Montfort University in Leicester on the evening of February 3 this year.
Prosecutor Jane Osborne KC told the jury Dennis, of West Drayton, London, killed Mr Oladipo, whom he made friends with through online gaming, because of a “perceived debt”.
