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| Aamir Siddiqi: Cardiff stab scene 'worst seen' by officer | |
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| A police officer has described the scene of a 17-year-old student stabbed to death in his Cardiff home as the worst he had come across. | |
| Sgt Kee Wong told a murder trial he and another officer tried to save Aamir Siddiqi, fatally stabbed in an alleged bungled contract killing in April 2010. | Sgt Kee Wong told a murder trial he and another officer tried to save Aamir Siddiqi, fatally stabbed in an alleged bungled contract killing in April 2010. |
| Sgt Wong told Swansea Crown Court he had been "affected" by their failed efforts to save the schoolboy. | Sgt Wong told Swansea Crown Court he had been "affected" by their failed efforts to save the schoolboy. |
| Jason Richards, 38, and Ben Hope, 39, deny murder and attempted murder. | Jason Richards, 38, and Ben Hope, 39, deny murder and attempted murder. |
| The jury heard how Sgt Wong performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the A level student and another officer did CPR while an ambulance was awaited. | The jury heard how Sgt Wong performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the A level student and another officer did CPR while an ambulance was awaited. |
| "I put gloves on and felt for a pulse in Aamir's neck," said Sgt Wong. | "I put gloves on and felt for a pulse in Aamir's neck," said Sgt Wong. |
| He said officers also put bandages onto Aamir's wounds. | He said officers also put bandages onto Aamir's wounds. |
| "I had just come from doing CPR on another male and to see a young lad on the floor and trying to save him, yes, I was affected," he told the court. | "I had just come from doing CPR on another male and to see a young lad on the floor and trying to save him, yes, I was affected," he told the court. |
| The court heard that it took some 20 minutes for an ambulance to get to the scene of the stabbing in Ninian Road, Roath, Cardiff, around half a mile from the city's University Hospital of Wales. | The court heard that it took some 20 minutes for an ambulance to get to the scene of the stabbing in Ninian Road, Roath, Cardiff, around half a mile from the city's University Hospital of Wales. |
| The jury was told, during cross-examination by John Charles Rees QC, defending for Mr Richards, that a traffic officer had gone to the hospital to make sure an ambulance was coming. | The jury was told, during cross-examination by John Charles Rees QC, defending for Mr Richards, that a traffic officer had gone to the hospital to make sure an ambulance was coming. |
| Sgt Wong confirmed he had heard of that afterwards. | Sgt Wong confirmed he had heard of that afterwards. |
| He also said he could recall another officer shouting over the radio that an ambulance was required immediately. | He also said he could recall another officer shouting over the radio that an ambulance was required immediately. |
| Phone call | |
| On Monday the jury heard a statement made Aamir's sister Miriam that the day had begun as "a normal lazy Sunday morning". | |
| Ms Siddiqi said she and her husband had left the house the afternoon and were going to get Aamir a takeaway meal when she received a phone call from her mother. | |
| Ms Siddiqi said her mother was screaming words in Urdu to the effect of "he has left this world", "they have killed him". | |
| Jurors heard that she called her mother back who was hysterical and said: "I do not know what is going on", and "these people, they have stabbed him." | |
| The court was told that Ms Siddiqi was "extremely panic-stricken" and arrived back home to find it cordoned off by police was informed at the hospital that Aamir had died of his injuries. | |
| Attacked 'indiscriminately' | |
| The court earlier heard that the teenager's parents were left bleeding badly after trying to tackle their son's balaclava-clad killers. | |
| Aamir Siddiqi's father, Iqbal Ahmad, told the jury how his son's killers pushed their way into the family home and attacked the teenager "indiscriminately", without seeing who their victim was. | |
| The prosecution claims Mr Richards and Mr Hope had been paid by a businessman, angry because a property deal had collapsed, to kill his chosen victim in Shirley Road in the Roath suburb of Cardiff. | The prosecution claims Mr Richards and Mr Hope had been paid by a businessman, angry because a property deal had collapsed, to kill his chosen victim in Shirley Road in the Roath suburb of Cardiff. |
| But the pair were said to have gone by mistake to the Siddiqi family home around the corner in Ninian Road instead, showing "staggering incompetence". | |
| The jury has seen CCTV footage showing Mr Hope allegedly spending the proceeds of the crime in a shop. | |
| Mr Richards and Mr Hope deny murdering Aamir Siddiqi and also attempting to murder his parents. | Mr Richards and Mr Hope deny murdering Aamir Siddiqi and also attempting to murder his parents. |
| The trial continues. | The trial continues. |