N.S. news: Mall stabbing facts read in court [Video]

HALIFAX –

The grim details of the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Halifax boy last April were revealed in court on Friday as convictions were recorded for two teens who had pleaded guilty to taking part in the crime.

In October, a 14-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Ahmad Maher Al Marrach. The boy was found badly injured in a parking garage next to the Halifax Shopping Centre on April 22. He died later in hospital.

On Friday, agreed statements of fact for each of the accused were read into the record during a hearing in Nova Scotia youth court. Aside from a few details, the documents are virtually identical.

Al Marrach, a well-liked student at Citadel High School in Halifax, arrived in Canada with his family several years ago after escaping the war in Syria.

Two other teenage boys — ages 17 and …