A 17-YEAR-OLD youth who stabbed another teenager in the neck over an after school fight has admitted wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

But Umar Ali will have to wait to be sentenced after Burnley Crown Court was told the defendant originally said he had used a folding knife blade attached to a nail clipper, but then claimed it was a pointed file.

Sarah Johnson, prosecuting, told the hearing last February 9, the 19-year-old victim received a phone call at 3.30pm from an unknown number, telling him: "Get down here. Your brother's having a fight."

The victim, whose 14-year-old brother attended St John Thursby School in Burnley, got into a friend's car and drove to the Colne Road area.

He saw his brother involved in an altercation with a boy.

Miss Johnson said the victim got out of the car and went to try and break up the scuffle.

The defendant, of Belford Street, Burnley, then approached the victim and stabbed him in the neck with a blade.

Ali, said to have told the victim he would stab him and to have said: "I have got your brother on my knife," denied making the threats.

The court heard Ali ran away and fled to Bradford for some time.

The victim was taken to hospital where he was found to have a one and a half centimetre wound to the front of his neck.

Air had entered and penetrated the soft tissue but the wound could be stitched although the victim was told he would be left permanently scarred.

The prosecutor said the defendant was arrested on February 17 when he was questioned about using a knife.

He asserted the 19-year-old had punched him first and all he did was hit him back.

He denied having any sort of blade or knife in his possession and claimed he had gone to Bradford for a family funeral.

The court was told Ali pleaded guilty to the wounding on the basis he had gone to pick up his younger brother up from St John Thursby School and was not expecting to take part in violence.

He claimed he had gone to break up a fight and got involved in a confrontation.

Ali said he pushed out at the victim with a small folding knife attached to nail clippers and denied threatening to stab the victim.