15-year-old boy charged with murder of Mohanad Goobe
The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced that a 15-year-old boy has been charged with murdering 15-year-old Mohanad Goobe, who was stabbed to death during a large-scale disturbance on Monton Street, near Whitworth Park in Moston on Monday of this week.
Howard Gough of the Crown Prosecution Service said:
“The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to prosecute a 15-year-old boy for murder, following a police investigation into a large-scale disturbance on 15 September 2025, on Monton Street, near Whitworth Park in Moston.
“Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings.
“We have worked closely with Greater Manchester Police as they carried out their investigation.”
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on 20 September 2025.
We remind all concerned that proceedings against the suspect are active and he has a right to a fair trial.
It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings.
Notes to editors
- Howard Gough is a Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service in the North West.
- The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges for a criminal court to consider.
- The CPS assessment of any case is not in any sense a finding of, or implication of, any guilt or criminal conduct. It is not a finding of fact, which can only be made by a court, but rather an assessment of what it might be possible to prove to a court, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.