THIS is the chilling moment a teenager was chased and stabbed to death in front of horrified shoppers.
A 16-year-old hired killer has been arrested after Mustafa Momand was stabbed to death in broad daylight on the orders of a drug dealer.
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While walking towards the railway station, Mustafa was stabbed in the chest in front of horrified passersby.
Pursued by the knifeman, Mustafa ran through the busy streets of Brighton with his wound gushing blood.
After being followed for around 165 metres, he collapsed in front of the railway station and subsequently died.
A court heard that Mustafa was murdered by a 16-year-old who was ordered to kill him over a £20,000 drugs debt.
The drug lord’s family would have links to ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
The teenager denied murdering Mustafa but was unanimously found guilty by a jury after a two-week trial at Brighton Crown Court.
Due to the killer’s age, his identity was kept hidden during the trial under orders of anonymity.
But today the judge revoked the sentencing order and he can now be identified as Armin Mehdikhani-Sarvejahani, of Southwick, Brighton.
Sentencing him to 17 years in prison, Judge Adam Constable KC said the attack was “planned and pre-meditated and was not opportunistic and impulsive”.
He said: “In the remaining minutes, Mustafa ran for his life, unaware that the extremely serious injury inflicted on him had already ended that life.”
The judge told him: “Having seen Mustafa fall, you made a gesture of some kind of triumph, turned and walked away.”
The court heard Mustafa was moved from Brighton for his own safety in April last year.
He returned to the seaside town to appear in court on October 5, but never returned to the train station.
Upon returning to the train, he was spotted by Mehdikhani-Sarvejahani, who confronted him and plunged a large kitchen knife into his chest.
The court heard that the knife was “plunged” into Mustafa’s chest with “such severe force” that it pierced his sternum and severed one of his pulmonary arteries.
Despite his injuries, Mustafa turned and fled down the busy road with blood pouring from the wound.
Shocked eyewitnesses saw him running towards the train station being chased by another teenager,
They said he appeared to be “running for his life” as the alleged stabber followed him shouting: “I’m going to f***ing get you.”
After collapsing, he was rushed to hospital, where surgeons performed emergency surgery and gave him 16 liters of blood.
He was later pronounced dead.
TRAGIC TEENAGER
Jurors heard how Mustafa was described as a “cheeky guy” and “one of the lads” by his young worker.
He moved to the UK from Afghanistan with his family in 2009 when he was three years old.
He adapted well to his new life in Brighton and enjoyed school, but in late 2021, when he was 15, it became clear he was dealing cannabis.
His mother found marijuana in his room along with a scale and confronted her son about it.
When Mustafa turned 16, things “got worse” and his behavior changed.
His parents found guns in his pockets and he disappeared for days.
His drug dealing increased and he had 30 bags of crack cocaine, £800 in cash and brass knuckles hidden in his bedroom.
Mustafa’s last moments were running away in fear
Nathan Rasiah K.C.
His general appearance suffered and he became unkempt and dirty. His parents complained to him about his attitude.
However, he continued to deal drugs and managed to run up a shared drug debt of around £20,000.
The gang he owed money to began threatening him.
In March 2023, a man called the family home and spoke to Mustafa’s father, Noor, demanding that he pay his son’s debt.
He said he would only meet the man at a police station, the court heard.
A week later, the same man called the family home and said, “Where is your son of a bitch.”
Mustafa’s parents begged the police and local authorities to do something and he was transferred to social care in Croydon in April for his own safety.
He returned to Brighton to shop in September but was surrounded and pushed into Churchill shopping center by a gang of youths who only let him go because he was with his mother.
‘TROUBLE COCKTAIL’
Less than two weeks later, on October 5, Mustafa traveled from Croydon to Brighton Magistrates’ Court for a drug hearing.
Nathan Rasiah KC, prosecuting, told the court: “The defendant traveled from Southwick to Brighton with a kitchen knife, gloves and a balaclava and without his mobile phone when Mustafa Momond was in Brighton.
“The defendant went looking for Mustafa.
“Graphic evidence captured on CCTV showed the defendant chasing Mustafa after the stabbing when he fatally injured him.
“Mustafa’s final moments were running away from the defendant in fear.”
In mitigation, Balraj Bhatia KC, defending, said Mehdikhani-Sarvejahani was born in Iran and witnessed death almost daily.
He was reportedly severely disturbed in his childhood and suffered “a cocktail” of problems, including mental health problems and low self-esteem.
The teenage killer did not speak English fluently, injured himself and had severe acne.
‘DEVASTATING’
The attacker denied murdering Mustafa, as well as two other separate incidents of threatening another person with a white article and threatening with an offensive weapon in July and August 2023.
He was sentenced to 17 years – reduced to 16 years and 160 days due to time served in custody.
For threatening a person with a sharp article, he was sentenced to six months’ detention, concurrently with the sentence for murder.
The judge said: “This tragic case serves as a stark reminder of the real dangers that await young people who deal drugs.
“Young people’s lives quickly turn into effective servitude for the financial benefit of others and they are treated as expendable.
“Most clearly, it shows the devastating consequences of increasingly frequent knife crime.”
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