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A man has appeared in court accused of stabbing a gap-year student to death in the street in Manchester.

Imran Akhtar Hussain, 26, made a two-minute appearance charged with the murder of Kieran Crump Raiswell last week.

Unshaven and wearing a dark blue sweater and trousers, Hussain, of Tilehurst Lane, Bracknell, Berkshire, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address from the dock at Trafford Magistrates' Court. The court heard he is a student living in Coventry but his family home is in Bracknell.

He was also charged with common assault by beating Paul Kershaw in Nottingham on January 4. No pleas were entered.

Lynn Rogers, prosecuting, told the court: "The common assault, the crown say, there is a nexus between the two offences and they are linked."

There was no application for bail and Hussain was remanded into custody by Anne Marie Evans, chairwoman of the bench, to appear at Manchester Crown Court on Friday.

Mr Crump Raiswell, described as a "caring and quiet" teenager, died after he was stabbed in the heart while walking along the street in broad daylight in an apparently motiveless attack.

On a gap year before starting university, his family said the youngster "had his whole life ahead of him", and may have been intending to hand out his CV to shops and businesses when he was attacked while walking through Whalley Range in south Manchester on January 16.

He was given first aid by a passing fire crew but his injuries proved too severe and he died in hospital. A post-mortem examination concluded he died from a stab wound to the chest.

Mr Crump Raiswell lived with his father, an interpreter, and mother, a council worker, along with a younger brother and sister in the Chorlton area of south Manchester. He was due to go to Sheffield Hallam University in the autumn to study history.