Hunt for man wanted over murder continues nearly three years on from fatal stabbing in Sheffield

Ahmed Farrah, aged 32, has evaded arrest since August 2018 when 21-year-old Kavan Brissett was stabbed to death.

Kavan, a promising boxer, was knifed in his chest on the Grammar Street car park in Upperthorpe on August 14, 2018.

He died in hospital four days later and a murder probe was launched.

Nobody has yet been charged over the killing, but detectives believe Farrah could hold vital information.

To urge people to come forward, a £5,000 Crimestoppers reward for information on his whereabouts was made available.

Farrah, also known as Reggie, was captured on CCTV at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital on the same night that Kavan was stabbed.

He returned to hospital the following day but then disappeared.

He was treated for facial injuries believed to have been sustained in the same incident in which Kavan was stabbed.

Farrah has never been reported ‘missing’ by his family in Sheffield.

All his friends, relatives and acquaintances have been visited by the police and served with harbouring notices, warning that anyone found shielding him faces arrest and prosecution.

Four men who were present on the night that Kavan was stabbed have been jailed for their parts in an ill-fated drug deal that ultimately led to the murder.

Jason Baker, 41; Derice Cohen, Travis O’Grady and Ethan Hallows, all 20, went to Upperthorpe on the evening of 14 August 2018 to conduct a deal, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

The court heard that this led to an altercation in which Kavan, who had gone to the scene with the defendants, lost his life.

Baker, Cohen, O’Grady and Hallows each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class B drugs and were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court in March.

Baker, of Queen Mary Rise, Manor, was sentenced to 36 weeks; Cohen, of Birch House Avenue, Oughtibridge, received 30 weeks behind bars; O’Grady, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 31 weeks suspended for 18 months, and Hallows, of Stannington Road, Stannington, was sentenced to 28 weeks.

Anyone who sees Farrah should dial 999 immediately.

Anyone with information on where he might be, or relating to Kavan’s death, should call 101 and quote incident number 827 of August 14, 2018.

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