A teenager stabbed an 18-year-old man to death successively over a girl in a park in Twickenham, the Old Bailey has heard. Hazrat Wali, 18, from Notting Hill, West London, died in hospital after being attacked at the Craneford Way Playing Fields, on the afternoon of 12 October last year.
Mr Wali was sitting in the garden with Mariam Ahmadazai, a female friend, when they were approached by a group of six teenagers – three boys and three girls – one of whom is a 17 year old defendant.
“One of the girls commented that Mariam and Hazrat, sitting like them, look great together,” Jacob Hallam KC, prosecutor, told the Old Bailey on Friday. “The accused said, ‘I think he f****** you’. He then started swearing at Hazrat.”
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Mr Hallam said Mr Wali got up and approached the 17 year old girl, who was 16 at the time. The 17-year-old pushed Wali with his chest, telling him to “come to me then”, said Hallam. The pair then begin pushing each other, arms down by their sides.
The Guardian then called Daler Gull, a boy friend, asking him to come over to help him because he was going to fight. “He and the accused were still pushing each other, and (his girlfriend) heard Hazrat say ‘hit me with that hand if you can’ and she saw that, in her left hand, the accused was holding a knife.
“It is black in color, about 20 cm long, with a zig-zag notch on the top of the blade.” The Wali then told Ms Ahmadazai to stay away. “Hazrat and the accused kept pushing each other, Hazrat repeated, ‘Touch me with that hand if you can’,” said Mr Hallam. “And the accused said, ‘Touch me one more time’.”
Mr Wali pushed the 17-year-old with his left hand, said Mr Hallam. The 17 year old man then stabbed Pak Wali in the right side with a knife. The knife entered Wali’s body 10 cm, stabbed into his heart, and caused a “major and fatal loss of blood”, prosecutors said. He added that pathologists analyzed the wound, and found it would require “at least moderate force”.
“After he stabbed Hazrat it appeared to Mariam that the accused was trying to run away, but Hazrat grabbed hold of the defendant’s jacket,” Hallam said. “He said, ‘Why did you stab me?’, and screamed for help. The accused, still visibly angry, shouted ‘Come to me, touch me one more time’.
“Mariam went to separate the two, and Hazrat picked up a branch that had fallen as the accused was moving towards a sign.” Mr. Gull then arrived on the scene. “He heard Hazrat say, ‘Why did they stab me?’ and came to him,” Hallam said.
“Mariam was also there, and a teacher from the local school came to help with first aid.” The final stage of the incident became known to participants in a nearby rugby match between Richmond School and Hampton School. One of the school kids gives evidence to the police.
“He heard Hazrat shouting ‘Don’t f****** touch me again’ and saw him take off his jacket and take a stick, then chase someone – the accused – who was moving behind a sign and then both of them went towards the bridge,” said Mr Hallam . “It wasn’t long before the boy with the stick came back and passed out.”
Emergency services came to the scene but they were unable to save Wali’s life and he died about an hour later. Mr Hallam told the court that the 17-year-old, in a recorded prison phone call, said he was acting out of anger.
“Although he spoke of acting in what he claimed was self-defence, he said that when he stabbed Hazrat it was just ‘anger’, and the stabbing was ‘a way to release your anger’, said Mr Hallam.
The 17-year-old girl denies one count of murder.
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