Two teenagers have been jailed for 16 years each over a plot to murder a 17-year-old girl in Manchester. Rhett Carty-Shaw, 17, was sentenced for attempted murder after stabbing Iman Nassir at her home in Openshaw in May, while Kyro Mori Akhiro, 17, was sentenced for encouraging and assisting the attack.
Manchester crown court heard that Akhiro, formerly known as Sarah Mohamed, encouraged Carty-Shaw to “prove” his love for her after discovering he was still seeing Nassir. During the attack, Akhiro texted Carty-Shaw asking him to film it and bought Dettol wipes for cleaning the knife. Judge Alan Conrad QC described the pair as “selfish narcissists who believe that the world revolves around you”.
Carty-Shaw had been acquitted by a jury of raping Nassir, and the couple had a two-month-old son at the time of the attack. His defence said his low intellect made him “susceptible to manipulation”, but he still knew right from wrong. The day before the stabbing, Carty-Shaw made internet searches about murder sentences.
Nassir suffered stab wounds to her face, head and neck, spent four days in hospital, and has since moved away from Greater Manchester with her family. In a victim impact statement, she said she was undergoing therapy because her son reminded her of Carty-Shaw, and that her siblings also needed mental health support.
After the attack, Carty-Shaw sent a text reading: “I did it to prove I love you … There was no other way to keep you.” Speaking after sentencing, Nassir, who waived her right to anonymity, said it had been “hard to move on” but “it put my mind at ease to know that they’re in prison now”. She described Akhiro as “manipulative and delusional”.
