Life term for murder of teen refugee

A MAN who stabbed a teenage Syrian refugee in the neck after he “innocuously” brushed past his girlfriend on a crowded shopping street has been detained for life with a minimum term of 23 years.

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Alfie Franco, 20, was found guilty of murder over the “pointless, motiveless” broad daylight attack on 16-year-old Ahmad Al Ibrahim in Huddersfield town centre on April 3.

Ahmad, who fled war-torn Homs after being injured in a bombing, had been living in the West Yorkshire town for only a couple of weeks after moving from south Wales when he crossed paths with Franco, who had been for a Jobcentre appointment that day and was going to buy eyelash glue with his girlfriend.