Teens guilty of unprovoked racist murder of man taking food to his mum

Two teenagers have been found guilty of the murder of a 38-year-old man who died after being stabbed in the heart during an unprovoked racist attack.

The 17 and 16-year-old boys, who cannot be named because of their age, had denied the murder of Kamran Rasool Aman but admitted his manslaughter.

A jury of five women and seven men at Cardiff Crown Court took under seven hours to deliver their unanimous verdict.

They will be sentenced on 20 February.

Mr Aman was sitting in his car at around 23:50 BST on 30 June in Barry Road, Barry, when he was spotted by the 16-year-old.

The youth, who had been drinking alcohol for several hours and had been involved in a fight with the 17-year-old earlier that night, targeted Mr Aman because of the colour of his skin and began shouting racist abuse after failing to open the car's passenger door.

The court heard how Mr Aman, who had been delivering food to his wife and four-year-old child earlier in the evening was driving to Barry Road to deliver groceries to his mother, got out of the car to defend himself against the 16-year-old.

Several neighbours told the trial how they were alarmed at the shouting in the street and saw Mr Aman being set upon by two youths, in an attack described as "relentless" by one witness, with the youths behaving like a "pack of animals".

The jury was told the 17-year-old went back into a house where the teenagers had been drinking and returned 15 seconds later armed with a knife.

A witness told police they saw the youth swing the knife "multiple times".

Another neighbour, who said she had known Mr Aman for many years, said that Mr Aman ended up in her doorway and he told her: "I think I've been stabbed".

The neighbour said that she was surprised at how much blood was on the floor. She said Mr Aman told her: "I can't breathe".

With Mr Aman bleeding to death, the court heard how the two youths were still intent on fighting, with the younger youth bending over Mr Aman shouting racist abuse.

Eventually the two ran off, having first attempted to wash the knife and their hands with bleach but were arrested in a nearby street just after midnight.

Despite the efforts of an air ambulance doctor who performed emergency open heart surgery on Mr Aman on the street, he was pronounced dead at 01:07.

A statement read on behalf of Mr Aman's wife said he would "light up a room with his larger than life personality".

"Never once did he let me down. Meeting Kamran will always remain one of the most beautiful things that ever happened to me.

"He was more than just a husband, he was my best friend and my soulmate," it said.

It added that he was a loving father "to a child who is now broken and stripped of his love, care, and protection".

"Her hero, the person she adores and looked up to no longer here. She will grow up without a father's loving and comforting hands.

"Life for us will never be the same without Kamran. There is a hole in our heart that can never be filled, a pain that will never go away.

"Without Kamran, we are incomplete. The day he died, a part of us died with him."

A tribute from Mr Aman's mother, Shenaz, said the "grief I feel as a mother is unimaginable".

"It still pains me that I was unable to hold him, be near him, at the time he needed me the most," she said.

A further statement from his family said that Mr Aman's life was taken in a "brutal senseless racist attack".

"What makes this pain even deeper is that this horrific attack carried a hateful racial element leaving us wounded not only by the violence itself but by the fact account was targeted because of who he was.

"No family or loved one should ever bear such a burden," it said.