Stabbing victim’s pal faces questions over attempt to ‘run over’ murder accused outside Sheffield cinema

Noel Ramsey, aged 22, of Nottingham Street, Burngreave, pleaded not guilty to murdering Broomhall man Fahim Hersi, aged 22, after a confrontation at Centertainment on Friday, September 21, 2018.

Mubarik Osman helped put Fahim in the back of his black Seat, after finding him on the ground "in a bad way", and drove, with Ashrif Sharafi and Osman Jama, to the Northern General Hospital, arriving at around 9.30pm.

Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Osman was arrested on suspicion of murder by police, at 11pm, and later released.

Dean George, for Ramsey, said: "The police asked you - "Did you take a knife to the cinema?" You made no comment. Did you?"

"No," Mr Osman said.

CCTV of the Cineworld car park showed Mr Osman's car perform a three-point turn and "seemingly follow" Osman Jama, Fahim, and Ramsey, before the violence broke out in the car park.

"Didn't you try and run him (Ramsey) over?" Mr George said.

"I don't know," Mr Osman said.

"You don't know? You understand this is a murder case where your friend has died and your answer to that is "I don't know.""

Mr George asked passenger Ashrif Sharafi: "Did you not see Jama stick a knife into (Ramsey's) leg?"

"I didn't. I came back and saw Fahim dead on the floor."

Another friend, Mohammed Ali, was asked "how much pressure (did you) come under not to mention Osman Jama's name?"

"None," he said. "I was shocked and traumatised. I couldn't remember who was there. When I did remember, I told police."

David Brooke QC previously told the court there was bad feeling between Osman Jama and Ramsey, and Ramsey claimed he had acted in self-defence after he was stabbed in the leg.

The jury has heard how Fahim and his friends met at the cinema by coincidence, according to Mr Brooke, when they had both been going to see the same film.

A second defendant, Layton Morris, aged 22, of Ferrars Road, Tinsley, denies assisting an offender.

The trial continues.