Ex-friend stabbed
and battered to
death with bat

Nawzad Kamal murdered 34-year-old Bahman Amin on a grassed area in Andover Street, Pitsmoor, on June 17 this year, after a dispute between them “escalated out of all proportion”.

The 39-year-old, of Montfort Drive in Burngreave, denied murder but was yesterday found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court and given a life sentence. He will serve a minimum of 20 years.

Senior investigating officer Detective Inspector Jade Brice of South Yorkshire Police said: “This was a brutal and violent attack in broad daylight, which was witnessed by a large number of people. I have no doubt they will have been distressed by what they saw that evening.

“The pathologist who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mr Amin found that he must have been struck at least 28 times. This was a sustained and very forceful assault, carried out with no regard for human life.”

He added: “Kamal murdered his former friend after an ongoing dispute between the two men, who both originally came from Iraq and had both sought asylum in the UK in search of a better life.

“This dispute escalated out of all proportion and led to the untimely death of Mr Amin. My thoughts remain with his family.”

The murder investigation began after police were called to Andover Street at 7pm to reports that a man had been stabbed and was being beaten to death with a baseball bat.

Mr Amin, of Firth Park in Sheffield, was found with serious head injuries on land off Andover Street and was given first aid by police. He was taken to the Northern General Hospital but pronounced dead around 45 minutes later.

A post-mortem examination found he had suffered a stab wound to his left arm and had several head fractures. The cause of death was multiple injuries.

Mobile phone footage recorded by an onlooker, one of several witnesses who reported the attack, showed Kamal’s sustained and brutal attack with a baseball bat before he made his way home.

Alan Yousiefi, Bahman Amin’s older brother, said: “Bahman was much loved and his family and friends have found it hard to come to terms with the way he was taken from us.”