Barry teens sentenced for racist murder of stranger delivering food to his mum
On 23:50 on 30 June Aman arrived in Barry Road and parked a few doors down from his mother's home. He had been working during the day before spending time with his wife and four-year-old daughter.Marcus Staniforth and the second defendant had been drinking alcohol for several hours before arriving at a house on the same road where they continued to drink.The trial heard the second defendant had behaved in a "volatile and aggressive manner" earlier in the day, "confronting a train conductor" and "later threatening" Staniforth.It was the younger of the two, looking down from a bedroom window, who noticed Aman in his car in the street below and decided to attack him. Initially he took a hammer from the house but the weapon was taken off him.The youth started hurling racist abuse at Aman and, after unsuccessfully trying to get in to the passenger side of the car, went around to the driver's side.Aman came out of the car and began defending himself against a barrage of punches that were thrown first by the 16-year-old and then Staniforth who had joined the attack.Several neighbours told the trial how they were alarmed by shouting in the street, in an attack described as "relentless" by one witness, with the boys behaving like a "pack of animals".Staniforth was seen running back into the house, returning 15 seconds later armed with a large kitchen knife. Neighbours, who gave evidence during the trial, said Staniforth swung the knife "multiple times".Another neighbour, who said she had known Aman for many years, said he ended up in her doorway and he told her: "I think I've been stabbed."The neighbour said she was surprised at how much blood was on the floor. She said Aman told her: "I can't breathe."With Aman bleeding to death, the court heard how the boys were still intent on fighting, with the younger defendant bending over Aman shouting racist abuse.Aman was stabbed once through his heart, a fatal injury despite the best efforts of paramedics who performed emergency open heart surgery.Staniforth washed the knife and his hands with bleach before both boys fled the scene but they were arrested a short distance away, about 10 minutes after Aman was attacked.Staniforth's DNA was later found on the knife and Aman's blood was found on his shorts and and the other defendant's shoes.When interviewed by police that morning, the younger of the two youths blamed Staniforth for the murder, and shouted racist abuse at police.
