This is when the killer was arrested at work at JD Sports this morning after he and his brother had committed murder. Footage of the body was filmed by police raiding 19-year-old Ridhvaan Farouk at a shop in Sally Oak after he admitted to a colleague that he had been involved in an attack the night before, fed by his brother’s “calf”.
The victim of the ambush in Kings Norton was 20-year-old Amin Talea, who died a few hours later in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Following a trial at the Crown Court in Birmingham Farouk of Shanley Lane, Northfield, and his older brother Mohamed Farouk, 21 of Billbrook Grove, Bartley Green was found guilty of murder.
The siblings caught a taxi from Risborough House in Turves Green to Overbury Road on the evening of October 1 last year. They then waited and attacked Mr Talea around 9pm as he left his apartment on Longfellow Road to meet two of his friends parked in a Volkswagen Golf outside.
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The victim managed to escape to nearby Middleton Hall Road, where he killed two passers-by who called an ambulance after seeing that he was bleeding profusely. 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.
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.
Ridhvaan Farouk was working at JD Sports in Sally Oak when police arrested him on suspicion of murder (Image: West Midlands Police)
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.
“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.”
Amin Talea was killed by his brothers Mohammed and Ridhvaan Farouk
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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