Father relives night his son was stabbed
THE father of a Sheffield teenager shot dead in a city barber's shop relived the horrific moment his son returned home covered in blood after a first attempt on his life.
Rashid Chaiboub's son Tarek, aged 17, was gunned down in Burngreave in July last year – two days after he was discharged from hospital having being stabbed seven times causing injuries including a perforated liver.
Recalling his ordeal, Mr Chaiboub told Sheffield Crown Court he was asleep at his home in Castledine Gardens, Wincobank, when he heard his son banging at the door shouting, 'Dad, dad, ring the police'.
He told jurors: "I went straight to the window and he was lying there. I opened my door and I found my son. There was blood everywhere. He had seven stab wounds in his front, in his back, in his hand, three in his leg.
"His face was yellow and he was shaking. I thought he was dying."
Mr Chaiboub, a father-of-four who is originally from Syria, spoke to the court with the help of an Arabic interpreter.
He said: "I can't forget this night for the rest of my life."
He described calling the police and following his son in an ambulance to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital. Tarek was discharged three days later, and shot dead two days on.
Mr Chaiboub said in the months before his death Tarek had changed.
He said: "There was something wrong with my son. He changed, he seemed nervous, upset."
Later he added: "I blamed myself when he died. I was meant to protect my son."
A statement from Tarek's neighbour Eva Sinclair was read to the court. She described hugging Tarek the day he got out of hospital following the stabbing, and said: "He told me not to hug him so tightly.
"He said to me, 'Auntie, I know who did it. It's not the stabs that hurt, it's the hurt in my heart'.
"He told me it was his friends who had done it. I didn't ask him who, as I knew he wouldn't tell me."
The prosecution allege Tarek was stabbed, and later shot dead, by members of the S3 postcode gang because he was friends with members of a rival gang.
Nigel Junior Ramsey, 22, of Andover Street, Burngreave, said to be nicknamed 'The General', is alleged to have ordered the hit by "pulling the strings" from his prison cell.
His brother, Denzil Emanuel Ramsey, 20, of the same address, is also charged with murder along with Michael Jermain Chattoo, 21, of Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe, and a 17-year-old youth who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Nigel Ramsey, Chattoo, and 20-year-old Javan Richard Galloway of Nottingham Street, Burngreave, are also accused of attempted murder for the knife attack. They all deny all the charges.
The case continues.
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