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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Dave Higgens

Driver who mowed down ‘purely innocent boy’ jailed for at least 30 years

Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Al Yazidi died after being hit by a car which appeared to mount the pavement in Sheffield (South Yorkshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A driver who mowed down and killed a “purely innocent boy” as he walked along a pavement has been told he will serve at least 30 years in prison before he is considered for release.

A judge said 16-year-old Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Taleb was “tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time” when Zulkernain Ahmed, 21, hit him, throwing him into the air, as he drove down the wrong side of a busy Sheffield street to target a group of e-bike and moped riders.

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