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The Guardian // World // Europe

A teenager fled horror in Syria – only to be murdered on a sunny day in Huddersfield

Thursday 9th October 2025, 3:24PM

Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, was looking to make some friends but died after what should have been an innocuous encounter with Alfie FrancoAfter the horror of Homs, the Syrian teenager had found the relative harmony of Huddersfield. Sixteen-year-old Ahmad Al Ibrahim had been injured in a bomb blast when his parents sent him 4,000 miles away to West Yorkshire.Two weeks after he arrived, Ahmad and his cousin ventured into Huddersfield town centre on a warm spring day with just one aim: to make some friends. It was only his second time in the usually mundane shopping precinct when he gently brushed past another young couple who were walking along eating ice-cream in the afternoon sun. Continue reading...

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