A MAN on trial has refused to name the people involved in the murder of a 21-year-old in Slough out of fear for his and his family’s life, a court has heard.
Khalid Nur, 20, has been charged along with others with the murder of Kyron Lee, who was knocked off his bike in Earls Lane on October 2 last year before being ‘chased’ and stabbed in Waterman Court.
Five other men have also been charged in connection with his death with one, Yaqhub Mussa, 21, already having pleaded guilty.
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Nur is on trial at Reading Crown Court alongside Fras Seedahmed, 18, and Mohammed Elgamri, 18, who have both also been charged with murder, and Yakoub Tarifi, 18, who has been charged with assisting an offender.
On Friday (June 30), Nur was in the witness stand being cross-examined by his co-defendants barristers when he refused to name who was in the taxi that travelled to Telford Drive, Slough prior to the attack on Mr Lee.
The taxi left Pepe’s Piri Piri chicken takeaway in High Street with four men inside but only three got out at the Asda store in Telford Drive.
Those men were then involved in the attack against Mr Lee according to the prosecution. Nur said he was present but not involved in the incident.
Paul Keleher, defending Elgamri, has argued Elgamri was not one of the men who arrived near the scene of the incident and suggests he was the man who had gotten out of the vehicle prior.
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Cross-examining Nur, he said: “So you agree there was a fourth person [in the taxi] and someone had got out before the taxi got to Asda but you don’t want to talk about whose who?”
Nur responded: “You can ask the taxi driver.”
Mr Keleher continued: “Because the fact you don’t want to say who Mr Green is [the man identified through CCTV footage as Elgamri, according to the prosecution] is because you don’t want to reveal the identity of the fourth person through the process of elimination.”
Nur agreed, saying: “Yes, as there are repercussions for doing so.”
Mr Keleher asked if Nur was scared of the fourth person using violence against him. Nur responded: “Yes, or on my family.”
Nur then agreed with Mr Keleher’s statement that the people involved in the attack were ‘murderous people’.
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Mr Keleher then concluded to the jury: “I suggest Mr Elgamri was not Mr Green.”
The trial continues.
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