Privately educated schoolboy, 15, slashed 17-year-old rival with Rambo knife during 'appalling' violence in public on busy Leeds city centre street

A court heard police initially launched an attempted murder investigation when it was thought the victim had suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack.

Leeds Crown Court heard how the 15-year-old defendant took out the weapon and stabbed the other male to the back of the neck during the disturbance on Vicar Lane.

Robert Galley, prosecuting, said the incident happened at 6pm on July 3 this year as the city centre was busy with members of the public.