‘I didn’t see myself stabbing him because I had my eyes closed’

A 16 year-old boy stabbed a rival teenager to death in the street and then claimed he had his eyes closed when the victim ran on to the blade, a court heard. The youth is said to have plunged a large kitchen knife into the chest of Osman Sharif, also 16, during a fight on a summer’s afternoon in Tottenham, north London. Osman suffered a fatal wound to his heart and died at the scene in Tynemouth Road half an…