Failed Heroes of the Left: Tony Blair - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T12:44:03Zhttp://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/failed-heroes-of-the-left-tony-blair?groupUrl=argumentation&commentId=3766518%3AComment%3A198564&xg_source=activity&groupId=3766518%3AGroup%3A1677&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPetition to revoke Tony Blair…tag:4freedoms.com,2022-01-02:3766518:Comment:2751192022-01-02T20:49:58.632ZAntonyhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Antony
<p>Petition to revoke Tony Blair's knighthood - well worth signing - please share ! ; <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/02/petition-revoke-blairs-knighthood-smashes-215000-rising/" target="_blank">https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/02/petition-revoke-blairs-knighthood-smashes-215000-rising/</a></p>
<p>Petition to revoke Tony Blair's knighthood - well worth signing - please share ! ; <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/02/petition-revoke-blairs-knighthood-smashes-215000-rising/" target="_blank">https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/02/petition-revoke-blairs-knighthood-smashes-215000-rising/</a></p> Tony Blair is trying to prote…tag:4freedoms.com,2021-09-06:3766518:Comment:2733612021-09-06T15:47:15.014ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
<p>Tony Blair is trying to protect his paymasters (Saudi Arabia) and dance around the false distinction between Islam and Islamism. But still it is good for someone with his platform to remind everyone out there that Islamists want to either kill or enslave all non-Muslims.</p>
<p>And "<span>In my view, Islamism, both the ideology and the violence, is a first order security threat; and, unchecked, it will come to us, even if centred far from us, as 9/11 demonstrated."…</span></p>
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<p>Tony Blair is trying to protect his paymasters (Saudi Arabia) and dance around the false distinction between Islam and Islamism. But still it is good for someone with his platform to remind everyone out there that Islamists want to either kill or enslave all non-Muslims.</p>
<p>And "<span>In my view, Islamism, both the ideology and the violence, is a first order security threat; and, unchecked, it will come to us, even if centred far from us, as 9/11 demonstrated."</span></p>
<p><a href="https://rusi.org/events/members-events/911-attacks-two-decades" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://rusi.org/events/members-events/911-attacks-two-decades</a></p> Tony Blair - Britain's Logan…tag:4freedoms.com,2021-05-18:3766518:Comment:2724302021-05-18T12:13:55.580ZAntonyhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Antony
<p>Tony Blair - Britain's Logan ? ; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXq96JltL0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXq96JltL0</a></p>
<p>Tony Blair - Britain's Logan ? ; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXq96JltL0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXq96JltL0</a></p> https://institute.global/
"Th…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-09-29:3766518:Comment:2051642019-09-29T02:41:58.845ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><a href="https://institute.global/" target="_blank">https://institute.global/</a></p>
<p><span>"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change aims to help make globalisation work for the many, not the few. We do this by helping countries, their people and their governments address some of the most difficult challenges in the world today."</span></p>
<p><a href="https://institute.global/" target="_blank">https://institute.global/</a></p>
<p><span>"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change aims to help make globalisation work for the many, not the few. We do this by helping countries, their people and their governments address some of the most difficult challenges in the world today."</span></p> Exactly.
Actually I posted th…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-09-18:3766518:Comment:2051472019-09-18T22:28:57.062ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Actually I posted the above article in 2014. I had to swap it down here so I could post a massive article from the Daily Mail in 2016 about his biography. There is so much disgusting slush about Blair and his wife there, its amazing that he still dares show his face in public.</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Actually I posted the above article in 2014. I had to swap it down here so I could post a massive article from the Daily Mail in 2016 about his biography. There is so much disgusting slush about Blair and his wife there, its amazing that he still dares show his face in public.</p> Re the above - one also wonde…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-09-17:3766518:Comment:2049502019-09-17T06:37:30.159ZAntonyhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Antony
<p>Re the above - one also wonders whether he has any hidden accounts in places like Panama, Cayman Islands etc.</p>
<p>Re the above - one also wonders whether he has any hidden accounts in places like Panama, Cayman Islands etc.</p> Tony Blair's fortune boosted…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-09-17:3766518:Comment:2052362019-09-17T00:23:10.923ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<div class="storyHead"><h1>Tony Blair's fortune boosted £13m by 'bumper year'</h1>
<h2>Newly published accounts show former PM Tony Blair's business interests around the world are booming, according to a City accountant</h2>
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<div class="storyHead"><h1>Tony Blair's fortune boosted £13m by 'bumper year'</h1>
<h2>Newly published accounts show former PM Tony Blair's business interests around the world are booming, according to a City accountant</h2>
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<div class="byline"><div><p class="bylineBody">By <a rel="author" title="Robert Mendick" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/robert-mendick/">Robert Mendick</a>, and Edward Malnick</p>
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<div id="mainBodyArea"><div class="firstPar"><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10551183/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/%E2%80%8E"><strong>Tony Blair</strong></a> has more than £13 million deposited in the bank following his most commercially successful year since quitting Downing Street.</p>
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<div class="secondPar"><p>The latest accounts for a network of companies used to run his growing business empire show Mr Blair’s business interests around the world are booming. Profits at one company alone, which he owns, totalled almost £2 million while shareholder funds on two businesses total £7 million.</p>
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<div class="thirdPar"><p>The accounts, for the 12 months to April 2013 and which were lodged at Companies House last week, give the best indication yet of Mr Blair’s earning power. His wealth, including a London townhouse, a country estate and several other properties, is estimated at £70 million.</p>
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<div class="fourthPar"><p>The latest accounts do not give a full picture of Mr Blair’s assets but suggest he has had a “bumper” year, according to one City accountant who has analysed the figures.</p>
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<div class="fifthPar"><p>Mr Blair administers his commercial empire through a complex series of companies and partnerships, headed by two businesses – Windrush Ventures Limited and Firerush Ventures Limited. The companies were set up by the former prime minister when he left office.</p>
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<div class="body"><p>Through the companies, Mr Blair runs his global consultancies. It is understood that Windrush Ventures channels money for Mr Blair’s Government Advisory Practice, which advises national and regional governments on how to implement policies and reforms in a model based on his time in Downing Street.</p>
<p>Firerush Ventures administers the funding for Mr Blair and his team’s work advising companies and sovereign wealth funds. Both firms operate under the umbrella of Tony Blair Associates.</p>
<p>The fullest picture comes from the accounts for Windrush Ventures Limited, which show it enjoyed a turnover of £14.9 million for the 12 months to April 1 2013 and a profit after tax of almost £2 million, a rise of £650,000 on the previous year. Cash in the bank and “in hand” totals £8.8 million, up from £1.5 million the previous year.</p>
<p>Windrush employs 35 people and has a total wage bill of close to £3 million, almost £1 million more than last year.</p>
<p>Mr Blair’s staff earn an average of £86,000, while the company’s highest paid director receives £273,000. That director is thought to be either Catherine Rimmer, Mr Blair’s chief of staff and a former Downing Street aide, or else David Lyon, a former Barclays investment banker who was recruited by Mr Blair in 2012 to “grow and develop” Mr Blair’s business activities.</p>
<p>The accounts show that Windrush paid corporation tax on its profits of £653,000. Although the company generated turnover of almost £15 million, it paid tax on only a fraction of that because £12.1 million was paid out in expenses, to cover the cost of office rents, travel and hotel bills for Mr Blair and his team. The tax was paid out – quite legitimately – on only the company’s profits.</p>
<p>Accounts for another of Mr Blair’s linked companies, called Windrush Ventures No1 Limited, disclose that Mr Blair lent his own company £1.24 million in 2012 at a commercial rate of 5.5 per cent. The accounts show Mr Blair was repaid the loan in December 2012 “with applicable loan interest”. It is not clear why Mr Blair lent his own company the money but he earned interest on the deal of £75,000 in the course of the year.</p>
<p>Firerush Ventures Limited also enjoyed a bumper year. It is a smaller company than Windrush and as a consequence is not required by law to give as much detail about the state of its finances.</p>
<p>But the accounts show cash at the bank and in hand totalling £4.6 million, up from £1.2 million the previous year, and shareholder funds worth £1.6 million. The two companies between them had cash of £13.4 million and shareholder funds worth £7 million. Mr Blair is the ultimate owner of the businesses.</p>
<p>Mr Blair has earned a fortune since leaving office and has taken to flying around the world in a £30 million private jet which he charters on a regular basis.</p>
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<p>Mr Blair also has deals with mineral-rich Mongolia, with governments in Latin America and also in the Gulf states of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi. He is a regular visitor to China and the US and can earn as much as £250,000 a time for private speeches and appearances.</p>
<p>Mr Blair insists he does not make as much money as he could because he uses his profits from his commercial dealings to fund his philanthropic activities. He runs two global charities – a faith foundation and a not-for-profit organisation advising African governments – whose accounts are filed separately.</p>
<p>One City accountant, who has studied Mr Blair’s accounts, said: “These numbers are a big improvement on last year. Mr Blair has had a very good year. This is a bumper year – his best year yet.”</p>
<p>In a statement on his website, The Office of Tony Blair said: “These are the financial statements of the two companies through which the operating costs of the Tony Blair group’s global activities are paid. They do not represent his earnings or the earnings or the profit of his businesses and are not referable to them.”</p>
<p>The statement explains that Windrush is holding a surplus “for reinvestment in expanding the business”. The statement went on: “As a smaller company Firerush only publishes abbreviated accounts. It is a company that is solely for administering the costs of the business.</p>
<p>“The £1.5 million surplus for the financial year therefore represents the running costs and money retained for reinvestment in the business; on which corporation tax is paid.</p>
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</div> Tony Blair's name is on this…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-07-09:3766518:Comment:2038772019-07-09T05:20:23.974ZAntonyhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Antony
<p>Tony Blair's name is on this list ; <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-08/shtf-lets-revisit-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-08/shtf-lets-revisit-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book</a></p>
<p>Tony Blair's name is on this list ; <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-08/shtf-lets-revisit-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-08/shtf-lets-revisit-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book</a></p> Blair's "Cultural Enrichment"…tag:4freedoms.com,2019-06-27:3766518:Comment:2039372019-06-27T02:16:24.034ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><em>Blair's "Cultural Enrichment". And just look how many of them are charged with "perverting the course of justice". Obviously our justice system means nothing to those who prefer Sharia Law.</em></p>
<h2>Gang of five 'murdered father-of-four, 42, by slicing off both of his ears with a machete amid ongoing feud between neighbouring families'</h2>
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<p><em>Blair's "Cultural Enrichment". And just look how many of them are charged with "perverting the course of justice". Obviously our justice system means nothing to those who prefer Sharia Law.</em></p>
<h2>Gang of five 'murdered father-of-four, 42, by slicing off both of his ears with a machete amid ongoing feud between neighbouring families'</h2>
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<li class="class"><strong>Sajed Choudry, 42, died following the violent attack in Blackburn last year</strong></li>
<li class="class"><strong>Mr Choudry had been rowing with members of the Ali family who lived nearby </strong></li>
<li class="class"><strong>He had both ears cut off and suffered a collapsed lung and a bleed on the brain </strong></li>
<li class="class"><strong>Victim needed a 14-hour operation to re-attach his ears using skin from his legs </strong></li>
<li class="class"><strong>Four men and a youth on trial for Mr Choudry's murder in street attack on CCTV </strong></li>
<li class="class"><strong>Two of wives of the murder suspects are on trial for perverting course of justice </strong></li>
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<p class="author-section byline-plain">By<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Martin+Robinson,+Chief+Reporter+For+Mailonline" class="author" rel="nofollow">MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE</a></p>
<p class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"><span class="article-timestamp-label">PUBLISHED:</span><span> </span>15:52, 25 June 2019<span> </span></span>|<span> </span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><span class="article-timestamp-label">UPDATED:</span><span> </span>16:13, 25 June 2019</span></p>
<div><p class="mol-para-with-font">A murdered father-of-four had his ears sliced off with a machete by a gang of five during <span>a family feud that had sparked 41 calls to police in six months, a court heard today.</span></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Sajed Choudry, 42, died after two weeks in a coma following a row in the street near his home in Blackburn on November 27 last year.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Rafaqat Ali, 38, Sadaqat Ali, 36, Syed Ali Akbar, 43, Fazal Ilahi, 62, and a teenager who can not be identified for legal reasons, are jointly charged with his murder.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">They are also accused of the attempted murder and GBH of his son Ahsan who almost had his arm severed with a knife in an attack caught on CCTV.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Choudry had been rowing with the Ali family for months, who lived nearby in the Lancashire town, before the feud escalated to violence, Preston Crown Court was told.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">His rival head of the family, Sadaqat Ali, 36, had been arrested three days before the murder for smashing Ahsan Choudry, 24, over the head with a bar in the street. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">While in custody, Ali's wife saw another son of Mr Choudry, Mohsan, 20, approach her husband's car and slash one of the tyres, which led to his arrest, the jury was told. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Three days later, after his release from custody, Ali and four others gathered with an array of weapons including knives, an axe and blocks of wood and cornered Mr Choudary.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He suffered slash wounds to the side of his head with a machete, severing his ears, before the weapon was also swung but missed the victim's terrified wife. </p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Sajed Choudry, 42, was left in a coma (pictured) after the violent assault on him and and his son in late November but died two weeks later. While in a coma he had a 14-hour operation to re-attach his ears using skin from his legs but did not survive</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Mr Choudry (pictured) had been involved in a feud with a rival family, the Alis, going back months </p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Preston Crown Court heard of long running friction between the Ali and Chaudry families between May and November 2018.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Lancashire Police logs recorded 41 separate complaints in the months leading up to Mr Chaudry's death.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">On November 27, Ahsan Chaudry said he left his home to meet a friend, who was parked nearby.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">As he got into the passenger seat, someone tried to open the door.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Chaudry said in a police interview played to court today: 'I could see something was up his sleeve. I didn't get out of the car, I just got on the phone to the police, I said, "listen I'm about to get attacked, the guy is harassing me, coming outside the car". </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">'The first thing that came into my head was my dad, my mum and my brother.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">'I came out into the street. I could see there was a few people there near the park, walking up the steps. My dad's outside, and my mum.'</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Ahsad Chaudry said he tried to get to his father, but as he approached he started to feel blows to his head.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said: 'They hit my dad first. I didn't know it was a machete or anything like that. I thought it was a bat. At that time I started to get hit, my dad was falling on the floor.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">'I'm looking at him and he is getting attacked by two people and I am getting attacked by two people.'</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Chaudry said he felt blood running down his head and ran back to his house.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He was chased to the door, which he shut behind him, but heard banging on the door.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Fearful for his father, who was still outside, Mr Chaudry went back outside the house.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">As his attacker turned towards him with the machete raised, Ahsan put his hands up to protect himself.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said: 'My hand's come off. Most of my hand's come off. That's when I realised it was a knife.'</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Chaudry said he went back inside the house, and his family went indoors.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said: 'I could see and hear what was going on but I couldn't breathe really. I felt like I was going to go. I just started praying, thinking I'm going to die right now.'</p>
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<p class="imageCaption"> His killers met up met up in Rhyl Avenue, Blackburn, pictured, on the late evening of November 27 last year armed with pieces of wood, an axe and a machete, the jury was told</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Gordon Cole QC, prosecuting, took the jury through CCTV footage which he says captured the murder of Mr Choudry in Rhyl Avenue.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said the Crown's case was that five defendants, Sadaqat Ali, his brother Rafaqat Ali, 38, their father-in-law Fazal Ilahi, 62, another man, Syed Ali Akbar, 45, and a youth who cannot be identified for legal reasons, met up in Rhyl Avenue on the late evening of November 27 armed with pieces of wood, an axe and a machete-type weapon.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Also seen on the footage, he said, was Mr Choudry, who had a baseball bat, and son Ahsan, who held a cricket bat.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The prosecutor said Sadaqat Ali was seen repeatedly holding the machete and at one point struck Ahsan and caused a massive gash to his left hand which he put up to defend himself.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">In return, Sadaqat Ali was hit in the face with Ahsan's bat and then Rafaqat Ali struck Ahsan on the head with a stick, said Mr Cole.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said later Sadaqat Ali narrowly missed Sajed Choudry's wife, Shazia, with a swipe of the machete before Sajed Choudry was felled.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Cole said: 'At one stage you will see a clear backhand swipe into the side of the head of Sajed Choudry which caused him to go to the floor. That was the last blow that Sajed Choudry received.'</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Sadaqat Ali then chased Ahsan into his front garden before striking the door with the machete and then turning away, Mr Cole continued.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The machete has not been recovered, the court heard.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">When ambulance crews attended the scene, the prosecution say, Sadaqat Ali pretended to be unconscious.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">It is alleged that Saira Ali, 35, and Asma Ali, 34, the wives of Sadaqat and Rafaqat, were involved in deliberately switching off the CCTV system covering the outside of Sadaqat's home before any violence started.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Cole told jurors they would hear further details of Sajed Choudry's injuries to the top and sides of his head when a pathologist gives evidence later in the case.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He said the Crown anticipate that both Sadaqat Ali and Rafaqat Ali will say they used lawful and reasonable self-defence and did not intend to kill or inflict really serious harm.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Cole said the other three murder accused were expected to say they did not participate in any unlawful violence and that Saira Ali and Asma Ali will claim the CCTV system was prone to fault and it was purely coincidental it stopped working when it did.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Sadaqat Ali, Rafaqat Ali, Ilahi, Akbar and the youth all deny murder and attempted murder.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Saira Ali and Asma Ali deny attempting to pervert the course of justice.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The trial, scheduled to last eight weeks, continues.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7179563/Gang-five-murdered-father-four-slicing-ears.html" target="_blank">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7179563/Gang-five-murdered-father-four-slicing-ears.html</a></p>
</div> More of Tony Blair's cultural…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-11-23:3766518:Comment:1988362018-11-23T06:02:01.997ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>More of Tony Blair's cultural enrichment of the UK. He must be so pleased as he hides behind his 24 hour police guard that we pay for for all of his 5 mansions.</p>
<div class="post-row"><h1>Tragic boy’s fight for life caught on CCTV</h1>
<img alt="Daylight murder: Ozell Pemberton (right) fights off Ingram before being knifed" src="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/metro-news-s3-prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Header_2128956_1.1.jpg" title="Daylight murder: Ozell Pemberton (right) fights off Ingram before being knifed"></img> <br></br>
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<p>More of Tony Blair's cultural enrichment of the UK. He must be so pleased as he hides behind his 24 hour police guard that we pay for for all of his 5 mansions.</p>
<div class="post-row"><h1>Tragic boy’s fight for life caught on CCTV</h1>
<img src="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/metro-news-s3-prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Header_2128956_1.1.jpg" title="Daylight murder: Ozell Pemberton (right) fights off Ingram before being knifed" alt="Daylight murder: Ozell Pemberton (right) fights off Ingram before being knifed"/><br/>
<div class="postMeta"><span class="postMeta-author"><span> </span><span class="postMeta-author-name"><span class="light">by<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.metro.news/author/daniel_binns/">Daniel Binns</a></span></span><span class="postMeta-date postMeta-date--desktop meta"><span class="meta-light">Published</span><span> </span>November 23, 2018</span></div>
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<div class="post-row"><div class="postContent"><p>HARROWING CCTV footage showing a schoolboy fighting off two knifemen moments before he was stabbed to death has been released by police.</p>
<p>Ozell Pemberton, 16, was killed in broad daylight by Oscar Ingram and Mohammed Amir Hussain, a court heard.</p>
<p>The pair were this week convicted of murder with Ingram jailed for life to serve a minimum of 24 years, while Hussain was told he will serve at least 16 years.</p>
<p>Ozell’s friends watched in horror as the pair confronted him and stabbed him in the chest in Sutton Coldfield town centre, in the west Midlands, on May 17, the trial heard.</p>
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<p>He tried to run for help but the pair continued to pursue him. As he ran down steps, they fled.</p>
<p>Ozell collapsed in front of members of the public who battled to save him, but he died of his injuries at the scene.Video footage from earlier in the day showed Ingram, 21, and 17-year-old Hussain arriving at the town’s train station intent on getting revenge for an earlier incident, the court heard.</p>
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<p>It was a warm, sunny day but the pair were wearing hoodies to conceal themselves and their weapons. Ingram was caught after bragging to pals about the murder. Police later found traces of Ozell’s blood on Hussain’s trousers.</p>
<p>A jury at Birmingham crown court took just over six hours to find them both guilty of murder.</p>
<p>After the trial, Ozell’s family said in a statement: ‘We’ve been robbed of the best part of our family.</p>
<p>‘We can’t ever understand that our best boy won’t return home. Ozell had so many dreams and aspirations that he now can’t achieve them because of the selfish actions of others.’</p>
<p>Det Ch Insp Edward Foster, of the West Midlands Police homicide team, said: ‘This was a cowardly and shocking attack.</p>
<p>‘It is always a choice to carry a knife and I cannot stress enough the dangers and implications that carrying a knife has. This has destroyed three young people’s lives as well as those of their families and friends.’</p>
<p><a href="https://www.metro.news/tragic-boys-fight-for-life-caught-on-cctv/1320909/" target="_blank">https://www.metro.news/tragic-boys-fight-for-life-caught-on-cctv/1320909/</a></p>
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