This is the moment when a teen killer was arrested at work at JD sports this morning after he and his brother killed a man. Camera footage carried by the body was filmed by police raiding Ridhvaan Farooq in the store.
The 19-year-old had previously admitted to a colleague that he had taken part in an attack the night before, fueled by “his brother’s beef”. The victim of the stabbing in Birmingham was 20-year-old Amin Talea, who died a few hours later in hospital.
Following a trial in the Royal Court in Birmingham, Farooq and his older brother Mohammed Farooq, 21, were found guilty of murder, Birmingham Live reports.
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The court heard that the brothers and sisters were waiting and attacked Mr Talea around 9 pm on October 1 last year, when he left his apartment to meet two of his friends parked in a Volkswagen Golf outside.
The victim managed to escape and he hit two passers-by, who called an ambulance after seeing that he was bleeding heavily. Prosecutor Mark Haywood, who opened the case earlier this month, told jurors the next morning that Ridwan had been taken to work by his colleague.
Mohamed Farouk and his younger brother Ridhvaan (Image: WMP)
He said: “He asked her to go to Middleton Hall Road on the way to check something. He did not say what, but his colleague already knew from social media that there was an accident at Middleton Hall Road. She immediately wanted to know what was going on and asked Ridhvaan what he had done.
He told her that he and someone he only called “his brother” – he didn’t say who it was or what he meant by that expression – but he and this man were there the night before, not “his beef” was to his brother. The two in the car found Middleton Hall Road still blocked by police, inspecting the scene.
“The colleague told Ridhwaan that someone had died. He seemed shocked to hear this and cursed, saying “hell.” He also commented that “he will go down for it” and made him sick. He told her about taking a taxi to Overbury Road, walking to Amin Talea’s apartment and waiting for him to come out. He didn’t think he’d be caught on video surveillance, and he didn’t know about the bell’s cameras.
Amin Talea (Image: WMP)
“The colleague asked why he was telling her this, he said because he knows she won’t tell anyone. Naturally, she did. She told another colleague.”
Jurors were shown silent footage of police clashing with Ridhvaan at JD Sports later that morning. After he was arrested in the store, he refused to have a conversation with his colleague in front of the employees, the court heard. He later claimed that Mr Talea was a “gang partner” who could have been attacked for “many reasons”.
Police in the West Midlands said today that the brothers’ motive “remains a mystery”, but said the case was another example of “the devastating impact of the knife crime”. The Faroux family will be sentenced on Friday, April 29.
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