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UK: Seventh man held in killing Kurdish
asylum seeker
16.6.2007
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June 16, 2007
Hampshire, UK, -- A seventh man has been
arrested in connection with the death of an Iraqi
Kurd stabbed to death in a park.
Goran Barzan Fariq, 20, from Southsea, died in
hospital on Monday after a fight in the Queen
Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield on 9 June.
Fakher Mohammed, 22, from Portsmouth, appeared
before magistrates earlier charged with murder.
Four other men are now on police bail. A woman, 20,
also arrested, was freed with no further action to
be taken.
Police said earlier that there had been a large
annual gathering of Iraqi Kurdish families at the
park.
Stabbed man named by police
Hampshire detectives contacted a family in Iraq to
break the tragic news to them that their son has
been stabbed to death at a Hampshire beauty spot. |
Goran Barzan Fariq 20. The Petersfield murder
victim. Goran died following a stabbing at the Queen
Elizabeth Country Park on Saturday, June 9. |
After making contact with the dead man's family the
police have finally been able to identify him as
Goran Fariq, 20.
He was part of a social group of more than 100
fellow Iraqi Kurds, including families and children,
who gathered for a barbecue at Queen Elizabeth
Country Park, on Saturday.
After a fierce argument flared up, Mr Fariq was
stabbed and badly wounded.
He was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham,
but died on Monday.
The young man, who lived in Elm Grove, Southsea, had
only been in the UK a few months and did not have a
single relative in the country.
Using the local Kurdish community to help them find
Mr Fariq's relatives, the police were able to break
the news to his father in Iraq on Tuesday.
One man has appeared in court charged with murder.
Inspector Matt Cox, from Fratton Major Crime Unit,
said: 'We fully expect more arrests will be made.'
The Kurdish community in Portsmouth is very
close-knit and is said to have been devastated by
the murder.
The barbecue was jointly organised by members of the
Tangier Road Baptist Church in Copnor and a group
called the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which
fights for an independent nation for the Kurdish
people.
BBC | Agencies
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