Boy guilty of ‘pointless’ murder after stabbing victim, 18, through the heart

Charles Hartle has been found guilty of murder (Picture: Derbyshire Constabulary/PA Wire)

A boy who carried a Rambo-style knife to show others he was a ‘big man’ has been found guilty of murdering another teenager.

Charles Hartle was 17 when he stabbed Noah Smedley through the heart last December 28 with a knife he had hidden in his tracksuit bottoms.

Hartle was wearing a balaclava and ‘grinned or smiled before deliberately aiming for and stabbing him in the chest’, his trial heard.