‘Brutal and senseless’: Mum’s heartbreaking appeal to trace Sheffield man wanted over son’s murder

Shaun Lyall, aged 47, was battered to death at his home in Cleethorpes on the east coast in July 2018.

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He was attacked with golf clubs, screwdrivers, a knife, scissors and length of wood.

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Craig Whittle, who was 45 and of Corporation Road, Grimsby, was jailed for life last December for his part in the murder and ordered to spend a minimum of 21 years behind bars.

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Jurors were told that he was responsible for the death along with Sheffield man Abdi Ali, who disappeared after the killing.

The motive for the murder is said to have been missing drugs and cash that Mr Lyall was supposed to have been looking after.

Ali, 29, who is also known as ‘Madman’, ‘Johnny’ and ‘Gulaid’, was born in Somalia but moved to Sheffield as a child and spent most of his life there until he moved to the east coast over over the summer of 2018.

He has links to the Shirecliffe and Pitsmoor areas of Sheffield.

A £5,000 reward has been offered by Crimestoppers for information leading to his arrest.

In an appeal posted in a Facebook group she runs, Mr Lyall’s heartbroken mother Serena said: “Can I ask everyone to share a post for Shaun from our group. Lets flood Facebook with the picture of the prime suspects for his brutal and senseless torture and murder.

“Let the perpetrators know that when they took screwdrivers and golf clubs scissors and a knife and battered and butchered my son to death they murdered a somebody.

“Not a nobody, a somebody that will never be forgotten.

“A somebody that deserves justice.

“A somebody with a family and friends who will never give up until justice is served.”

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Abdi Ali should call Humberside Police on 101 and quote incident number 517 of July 17.

Crimestoppers can also be contacted, anonymously, on 0800 555111.