Ibrahima Seck

On a summer evening in New Moston, 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.

I wanted to do a more recent case after nerding out with some history of late. There’s a lot out there, Manchester can be a brutal place – but while every murder is a tragedy, not every story has that ‘hook’ that makes it into a podcast.

In a lot of ways, Ibrahima’s story is like that. There’s no mystery, no miscarriage of justice, no long investigation. But I wanted to tell it precisely because it’s so simple. A kid goes out to play football and never comes home, because another kid wanted to be a big man and was carrying a knife.

It’s a story that happens almost every day across the nation

Edit – Ibrahima’s killers were sentenced on 27th February 2026. You can find our bonus episode on this on your podcast app, or links are provided below (for the YouTube update please click on the ‘trailer’ link).