Thursday 9 October 2025A man from Huddersfield who savagely stabbed a teenager in an unprovoked attack in a busy town centre has been convicted of murder. Alfie Franco aged 20 from the Crescent, Kirkburton, was today (Thursday 9 October) convicted at Leeds Crown Court of the murder of 16 year...
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A man who stabbed a teenager in Huddersfield in broad daylight has told a jury he was “scared something was going to happen”.
Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, died after being stabbed by 20-year-old Alfie Franco in the town centre on 3 April last year.
Prosecutors say Franco “appears to have taken some petty exception” to Ahmad possibly making some “minor contact” with his girlfriend after “innocuously” walking past her.
Leeds Crown Court jurors heard Franco called Ahmad over to him and, as he approached, the defendant opened the blade on a flick knife he was carrying and drove it into the boy’s neck.
On Tuesday 7 October, Franco told the court he stabbed Ahmad because he was “scared something was going to happen”.
He told the court Ahmad was “quite aggressive” during the altercation and “kept going for his waist”.
Franco said he was in the West Yorkshire town centre that day for a Jobcentre appointment and that his girlfriend wanted to go shopping.
Asked why he took the knife with him, he said: “Because I’ve been in altercations and heard things that happen in town. I just wanted to have it with me… to keep me safe.”
After viewing a CCTV clip of him and his girlfriend walking together minutes before the stabbing, Franco said: “I was feeling quite happy. The meeting at the Jobcentre went well.”
He said Ahmad turned around and looked at his girlfriend, and then at him before saying: “Do you have a problem?”
Franco said he did not know what had happened but that Ahmad “came off as aggressive”.
He told jurors: “I felt like something was going to happen. Usually when someone says that in that tone, they mean something.
“At the start I was a bit confused and as it kept going on I was a bit frightened. It escalated from there.
“[Ahmad] started walking towards me in quite a fast pace… I thought he was going to attack me.
“It was his body language. He kept going for his waist and was putting his hood over his face and it was intimidating to me. He was coming to do something.
Asked how he responded, Franco said: “I reacted… I stabbed him in the neck.”
He told the court he took the knife out of his waistband and extended his arm, but was aiming for Ahmad’s cheek.
He said: “I just wanted to cut him so I could get away. He was coming at me in that way, I just wanted it to stop.”
He said when he was leaving the scene of the stabbing: “I was not in a good state. I was frightened, confused, I was feeling a lot of mixed emotions”.
Franco said he left the town centre and went home but decided to hand himself in at a police station 10 minutes later.
He said: “I just thought it was the only option. I had to hand myself in, it was the right thing to do.
Franco said he didn’t realise how seriously he’d injured Ahmad. He said he thought it was "just an altercation”.
The court heard Franco was born in Huddersfield but moved to South Africa with his family as a baby, returning at the age of 13.
He said South Africa was “a beautiful place but it is quite dangerous”, telling the court his family home was burgled “at least once or twice a week” and that he had been mugged “countless times”.
Franco said when he returned to Huddersfield as a teenager he was bullied because of his accent and beaten up at school.
He told jurors he was stabbed in his hand when he was 17, and cut in the face during an incident last October.
Ahmad came to the UK after being injured in a bombing and hoped to become a doctor.
His family said: “He chose to come to the UK because he believed in the values of human rights, safety, and dignity… He had just begun settling into his new life with his uncle, adjusting to a new language, a new home, and a future he was excited to build.
“Ahmad was kind, gentle, and carried so much promise. Losing him has left an unimaginable emptiness in our hearts.
“We never thought that the place he saw as a safe haven would be where his life would end.”
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This seems to be the exact opposite of what SherFront wants to believe the world is like but unfortunately in this incident you have an innocent teenage boy coming from another country for a better life having been injured in a bombing - only to run into white South African culture.
Is this how you're supposed to write this stuff?
In any event, you can plainly see Franco is using his experience of white victimhood in South Africa as a reason for his extreme and unprovoked violence.
It's almost like you can't trust people purely based on the colour of their skin.
Amazing revelation.