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Hometown: A Teenage Killing

Journalist Amber Haque returns to her hometown of Manchester to report on the tragic killing of Yousef Makki, but uncovers a wider story affecting young men across the city.

Journalist Amber Haque returns to her hometown of Manchester and finds a community still reckoning with the death of Yousef Makki, a 17-year-old scholarship boy at a private school, who was killed in one of the city鈥檚 wealthiest suburbs in 2019. With Yousef鈥檚 killing and a subsequent murder trial still the talk of the town, Amber tries to understand the circumstances surrounding his death.