Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed Ahmad Al Ibrahim after taking ‘petty exception’ to teenager brushing past his girlfriend
A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for murdering a teenage Syrian refugee after he brushed past his girlfriend in Huddersfield town centre.
Leeds crown court heard how Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, shortly after Ibrahim brushed past Franco’s girlfriend in April. He was found guilty of murder on Thursday.
Ahmad, who fled war-torn Homs after being injured in a bombing, had been living in the West Yorkshire town for only a couple of weeks when he crossed paths with Franco, who had been for a jobcentre appointment that day and was going to buy eyelash glue with his girlfriend.
Leeds crown court heard that Franco – who had consumed cannabis, cocaine, diazepam, ketamine and codeine – took “some petty exception” to Ahmad “innocuously” walking past his girlfriend in the street.
