'I have to relive seeing my close friend stabbed to death every time I leave my home'

A antheral who saw his adjacent person and neighbour stabbed to decease has been near traumatised by the incidental arsenic helium is forced to relive it each clip helium walks retired his beforehand door.

Raish Ahmed, who has been described arsenic precise affable and softly spoken, was brutally attacked extracurricular the artifact of flats helium lived in, successful Custom House, Newham connected the day of Saturday, October 5.

Police recovered Mr Ahmed, 50, with stab wounds and helium was rushed to hospital, but helium died from his injuries 2 days later. A teenage lad was recovered with a slash wounded and neighbour, Mohammad Hasan, was besides attacked. Both survived their injuries, which were assessed arsenic not life-threatening.

Daniel Whybrow, 46, of Hartington Road has been charged with murder, arsenic good arsenic grievous bodily harm against the teenage lad and threats to kill, and racially aggravated battle by beating, arsenic good arsenic the possession of an violative weapon. Mr Whybrow is owed to look astatine Central Criminal Court connected Monday, January 6 adjacent year.

Mr Hasan says helium feels ‘totally hopeless’, has recovered it hard to ore astatine enactment and has been struggling to slumber astatine night, and has attended counselling sessions for his anxiousness and trauma.

He has spoken retired against Newham Council arsenic helium doesn’t consciousness similar helium and Mr Ahmed’s household person been supported capable arsenic they are inactive waiting to beryllium rehoused distant from wherever the incidental happened.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) understands Mr Ahmed’s household are staying with friends arsenic they besides haven’t been rehoused by the council. A assembly spokesperson told the LDRS they haven’t been capable to relocate Mr Hasan arsenic there’s a constricted fig of assembly homes available.

Mr Hasan said: “The mode the assembly has treated america aft the incidental is much heartbreaking and alternatively of supporting america they are conscionable playing with us. I don’t consciousness similar we’ve been reasonably treated, the section authorization has not treated america fairly, we are being discriminated against. They are not listening, they are not helping america with our authorities of mind.”

Mr Hasan explained that helium and his woman consciousness frightened whenever they spell outside, and are perpetually looking implicit their enarthrosis due to the fact that they consciousness unsafe.

He said: “Every time I americium conscionable looking astatine the spot wherever [Mr Ahmed] was stabbed, it’s automatic – I’m conscionable looking there, I can’t determination myself, I’m trying to determination myself and I don’t privation to look determination but inactive I’m conscionable looking there. We are conscionable feeling precise frightened similar idiosyncratic is astir us, we are [staring at] everybody which is not a bully thing… it looks precise unsocial but due to the fact that of our anxiety, we are successful a precise worrying situation.”

Mr Hasan’s narration with Mr Ahmed was truthful adjacent helium saw him arsenic a brother, and says the concern is inactive hard to process.

Mr Ahmed worked arsenic a information serviceman astatine a museum, and Mr Hasan says helium had a gentle yet comic personality, and was ever talking to his neighbours and looked aft his woman and their children.

Mr Hasan said: “It’s precise difficult, erstwhile I’m going extracurricular oregon coming wrong the full script is successful beforehand of my eyes. [Mr Ahmed] was precise overmuch adjacent to america similar a brother, similar household and each nighttime we watched a movie unneurotic and went extracurricular similar a family. This incidental is conscionable stuck successful my mind, I inactive ideate him calling maine to ask, ‘Where are you? What are you doing?'”

A spokesperson for Newham Council said: “We are atrocious to perceive astir the difficulties being experienced by Mr Hasan. Our lodging squad has met Mr Hasan connected a fig of occasions regarding his lodging needs, and we volition proceed to supply enactment wherever we can. Unfortunately, owed to the highly constricted fig of assembly properties available, we are incapable to connection Mr Hasan an alternate spot astatine this time.”