A boasting killer who bragged in a rap track about stabbing a teen to demise is going through life in jail after being convicted of homicide.
Abdirahaman Yussuf, 20, plunged a blade into the chest of 18-year-old Yahya Sharif who was ambushed as he received out of his automobile in Small Heath, Birmingham.
{The teenager} managed to run away however rapidly collapsed in a pool of blood and died on the scene on Coventry Highway on December 10 final yr.
A courtroom heard CCTV captured a gaggle chatting close by shortly earlier than the assault, after which heading in the direction of the sufferer’s BMW when he pulled up, at round 5.20pm.
Abdirahaman Yussuf, 20, plunged a blade into {the teenager}’s chest. He was discovered responsible of homicide right this moment following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court docket and might be sentenced at a later date
Yahya Sharif, 18, managed to run away however rapidly collapsed in a pool of blood and died on the scene on Coventry Highway on December 10 final yr
The boys, a few of them masked, approached Mr Sharif, who was instantly stabbed as he circled.
Following a police enchantment for assist in discovering Yussuf, he was arrested in London on February 16 this yr.
Hidden in an envelope in his sock had been handwritten rap lyrics apparently referencing the homicide.
They included the phrases ‘ching’ and ‘flash’, slang for stabbing, and referenced ‘Canada Goose’, the identical model because the jacket Mr Sharif was carrying when he died.
Yussuf was discovered responsible of homicide right this moment following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court docket and might be sentenced at a later date.
Three different males with him on the time had denied a cost of homicide and so they had been discovered not responsible following the trial. A fifth man was acquitted in the course of the trial.
Detective Inspector Hannah Whitehouse, of West Midlands Police, mentioned after the case: ‘Yussuf attacked Mr Sharif with out warning or provocation and sadly, the motive for this killing might by no means be clear.’
