UK - Hazrat Wali, 18, fatally stabbed, Twickenham, 12 Oct 2021

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UPDATE: Twickenham murder victim named as investigations continue
A murder investigation has been launched and officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward.

Officers have recovered CCTV from the area and spoken to a number of witnesses who described seeing a fight in the moments before Hazrat was attacked.

 

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Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren

Five minutes before the incident a group of very noisy kids came along heading to the field. The next thing we knew, all hell let loose.”

The attack reportedly began on a footbridge, where the victim and suspects had been arguing.

A parent said a group of boys “scarpered” after they were approached by the teacher, before her 13-year-old son saw Wali collapse.

 

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MP reveals police looking for key suspect in Student stabbing
key suspect wanted in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old student at Richmond College is currently on the run, it has emerged

 

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Police arrest teenager over murder of Afghan refugee Hazrat Wali
16-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder

 

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An Afghan teenager killed in south-west London asked his friend “why have I been stabbed” seconds before he collapsed and died.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of murdering Hazrat Wali, 18, and he remained in custody at in south London last night.

Wali, who was given asylum in the UK aged 14 after fleeing Afghanistan with his twin brother, had phoned a friend after being attacked by a group of up to eight males near Richmond upon Thames College where he was studying a construction and building course.

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Dying Afghan student Hazrat Wali asked his friend ‘why was I stabbed?’ | News | The Times

 

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What a sad and disturbing thing to happen. I used to work at that college, and although it is in a quiet and safe part of London, it wasn't unknown for teens to carry knives. It's a large FE college and students commute in by train from all over the London area.

 

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Boy, 16, charged with murdering Afghan refugee, 18, who was stabbed to death on playing fields | Daily Mail Online
The Metropolitan Police said a teenage boy, 16, from Hammersmith and Fulham was charged with murder on Friday and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturda

 

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Hazrat Wali fled Afghanistan aged just 12 with his twin brother.

The pair were separated on their journey to Europe.

Hazrat made it to Vienna where he lived for 18 months.

When his older brother Mohammed found out he was in Austria, he flew out straightaway.


In 2017 Mohammed helped Hazrat move to London via the EU's Dublin Convention, which allows unaccompanied asylum seeking children who have reached Europe to claim asylum in any EU country

Hazrat was resettled in Notting Hill, West London, living with his new foster mother Fatima


Hazrat had a "very happy life here in the UK and had many plans for the future".

"He was planning to be a person who can serve the wider community," Mohammed says.

That's why he chose to study a construction & building course at Richmond upon Thames College
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He spoke to confirm his identity before Judge Rebecca Trowler set a timetable for the case, with a plea hearing to be held on January 11. Boy, 16, charged with stabbing Afghan refugee student, 18, on playing field in Twickenham | Daily Mail Online

 

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The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons appeared today (Tuesday, January 11) at the Old Bailey charged with murder, which he pleaded not guilty to.

He did however plead guilty to possession of a bladed article in a public place.
Boy, 16, denies murdering Afghan refugee fatally stabbed while playing football

 

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A youth has received a 10-year jail sentence for the fatal stabbing of an Afghan refugee in a Twickenham park just hours after he was sentenced for possessing a knife.
Authorities caught the teenager possessing a black knife at Wandsworth Southside shopping centre two months before the killing, on August 5, 2021.
And she said: "You told the jury that you took the knife to the magistrates' court.

"You left it in some bushes outside and collected it once the hearing concluded."

Teen jailed for stabbing Afghan refugee to death in park

The 17-year-old youth admitted wielding a knife just hours after he left a magistrates' court, but has denied he intended to cause Mr Wali, a student and aspiring cricketer, really serious harm.

www.express.co.uk

 

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Youth jailed for killing teenager in Twickenham

A teenager has been jailed for the manslaughter of 18-year-old Hazrat Wali in Twickenham

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