N.O.R.F Posted October 25, 2003 http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=681556 Swaggering killer jailed A "SWAGGERING" murderer who viciously stabbed a man to death could remain a danger to the public for the rest of his life, a Sheffield judge has warned. Abdul Rashid Omar, aged 16, was detained at Her Majesty's pleasure for the cold-blooded killing of Parmajit Singh Bains, 37, in a row in Low Edges, Sheffield in March. Judge David Bentley QC ordered him to serve a minimum of nine years and four months. He doubted Omar would be on the streets for "a very long time". He said Omar, of Alexander Road, Heeley, was "extremely dangerous." He had regularly been violent at school and was an 'enforcer' employed by a drug dealer to use violence against addicts who failed to pay up. Omar stabbed Mr Bains up to 11 times in the chest, back and stomach in a row over £20. Mr Bains said Omar stole it when the note was dropped as he bought drugs. A bus stopped nearby was splattered with blood. Judge Bentley told Omar: "You will not be released until those who have the responsibility of deciding these matters are satisfied that you are no longer a danger to the public. "I may be wrong, but I feel that it may be a very long time from now before anyone can say you no longer present a danger," he said. "This was a truly appalling case. After that dreadful attack you left him (Mr Bains) bleeding and dying and walked away with a smirk on your face, swaggering, pleased with yourself." Omar, a Somalian refugee, admitted the frenzied knife attack but claimed it was manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. His lawyers said he'd been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, claiming he had never recovered from seeing his father gunned down by rebels outside the family home when he was six. The rebels returned a few days later n TURN TO PAGE 2 25 October 2003 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted October 25, 2003 Violent past of a teenage murderer TEENAGE murderer Abdul Omar lived in Sheffield for a mere three years – yet his murder trial was not the first time he had found himself hauled before the city's courts. A month before he stabbed Parmajit Singh Bains to death with a kitchen knife the 16-year-old was sentenced to a 40-hour community punishment order for attacking a police officer. And the year before that Omar, of Alexandra Road, Heeley, was convicted of attempted robbery. He had also been regularly expelled from two city secondary schools for his violent behaviour towards fellow pupils – a trend first noticed by teachers at schools he attended in London when he and his family arrived in the UK after fleeing from Somalia. Once in Sheffield Omar split his week between the classroom and dealing drugs on the city's streets. Predominantly a heroin and crack cocaine dealer, he admitted to Sheffield Crown Court that he would sell to "the young and old" and that his dealing would start as early as 9am when post offices opened and addicts could cash in their benefit cheques to pay for a fix. Omar said his deadly trade could earn him up to £400 a week, but that he stopped at the turn of this year when he feared police were closing in on his operation. Instead, in his own words, he became a "heavy" or the "muscle" for another dealer, where he was paid to use force to get addicts to pay up, openly admitting that he would use whatever violence it took. It was through Sheffield's drug scene that Omar first got to know the man he later went on to stab up to 11 times – admitting that he had dealt drugs to Mr Bains in the past. Det Sgt James Abdy, the senior officer in the case, said the vicious killing proved the dangers of getting involved in drugs. "The case highlights the dangers of living a life ruled by drugs and the dangerous and volatile situations those involved can find themselves in," he said. The young killer arrived in Britain along with his mum and two sisters in 1994 as an asylum seeker, claiming they feared for their lives in Somalia. Omar' s father – a civil servant in the Somalian Government's finance department – was gunned down by rebels who overturned the state. They returned a few days later and killed the teenager's twin brother. They were just six years old at the time. Omar 's mum, who has been on medication since the brutal double murder to help her cope, told Sheffield Crown Court that the rebels used machine guns to kill her husband outside their family home in 1993. She said a group of four men turned up claiming her husband was a spy because he had started to work as a driver for the UN when troops were sent into the troubled country to keep warring tribes apart. She said her son, who witnessed the bloodshed, was so affected by the ordeal that he barely spoke until he was 10. She told immigration officials that anyone from an opposing tribe to the rebels in power in the early and mid 1990s was at risk of being killed. THE VICTIM PARMAJIT Singh Bains moved to Sheffield from Derby in the mid 1990s to seek help for his heroin addiction. He was accepted on to a drug rehabilitation programme and opted to stay in the city at the end of his treatment. But the 37-year-old father-of-one soon slipped back into his old ways and eventually crossed paths with the drug dealing teenager who later claimed his life. Det Supt Haworth said Mr Bains' murder had devastated his family. "They are a very loyal and well educated family living through their worst nightmare - the loss of a treasured loved one," he said. 25 October 2003 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xafsa Posted October 25, 2003 Acuudu bilaah....what the hell is wrong with us bisinkee!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaabir Posted October 25, 2003 he's lucky they didnt send him to gas chamber.. walaahi last night these tow black gangsters held up a 17 year old somali boy at a gun point and wanted to rob his Phat Farm leather coat.. the kid was a lil moryaan i think, his as was fighting yelling as if he is in somalia.. they could have easily shot him dead.. instead they knocked him out and took his shit.. maan i think we have a young generation coming up who knows nothing but violence.. masiiibow waaye walaahi.. thanks Lander.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
