‘I regret that he died’

A teenager accused of stabbing a schoolboy to death with his grandfather’s swordstick said he felt ‘regretful’ he died but insisted he did not intend to kill him, a court heard. Fares Maatou, 14, died from his injuries after the weapon was plunged deep into his back outside the Love Choco cafe in Canning Town, east London, on 23 April last year. One of the accused killers had taken the weapon – a blade concealed in a cane – from…