In a statement, Mohanad’s family said: “His life has been cut tragically short, it is difficult to comprehend that seeing your son head off for school in the morning would be the last time that we would see that handsome face.”
They said the 15-year-old had “an uncanny ability to make you laugh, making it sometimes difficult to be serious with him”.
He also had an older sister and brother, they said.
“Mohanad had many friends, he was loyal and often played the class clown, simply to see them laugh,” the family added.
“Mohanad deserves to be remembered for the young man who was loved by his family, and loved big in return, not as the boy whose life was taken with no thought or reason.”
Police are continuing to investigate the stabbing and have urged anyone with information about the attack to come forward.