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Man sentenced to life for killing Syrian refugee with flick knife
The Guardian
|October 11, 2025
A man has been detained for life with a minimum term of 23 years for murdering a teenage Syrian refugee after he brushed past his girlfriend in Huddersfield town centre.
Leeds crown court heard how Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed Ahmad al-Ibrahim, 16, shortly after Ibrahim had brushed past Franco's girlfriend in April. He was found guilty of murder on Thursday.
Ahmad, who had fled the Syrian city of Homs after being injured in a bombing, had been living in the West Yorkshire town for only a few weeks when he crossed paths with Franco.
The court heard that Franco - who had consumed cannabis, cocaine, diazepam, ketamine and codeine - took "some petty exception" to Ahmad "innocuously" walking past his girlfriend in the street.
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