‘It was my mate who killed him’

A 14 year-old schoolboy accused of stabbing a rival teenager to death has blamed his friend for the murder. The youth claimed he was shouting ‘stop’ as the other boy knifed victim Saif Abdul-Majid, 18, seven times during a fight outside a block of flats. But he told jurors at the Old Bailey he believed his friend, also 14, was acting in self defence after being stabbed in the head. The two youths are standing trial alongside a 15 year-old…