After the horror of Homs, the Syrian teenager had found the relative harmony of Huddersfield. Sixteen-year-old Ahmad Al Ibrahim had been injured in a bomb blast when his parents sent him 4,000 miles away to West Yorkshire.
Two weeks after he arrived, Ahmad and his cousin ventured into Huddersfield town centre on a warm spring day with just one aim: to make some friends. It was only his second time in the usually mundane shopping precinct when he gently brushed past another young couple who were walking along eating ice-cream in the afternoon sun.
