{"id":7756,"date":"2015-10-07T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/memorial-bench-for-azim-azam\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:33:20","slug":"memorial-bench-for-azim-azam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/memorial-bench-for-azim-azam\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Bench for Azim Azam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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16-year-old was Murdered Going to School<\/h3>\n

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\nThe family of a murdered schoolboy have unveiled a bench in his name. Azim Azam\u2019s family spoke for the first time since the incident which cruelly took the life of the 16-year-old.

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\nThe tragic student\u2019s older brother Fiasal, 26, spoke movingly about his younger sibling on the second anniversary of the tragedy, as a memorial bench was unveiled at the spot where he was killed.<\/p>\n


\nHe said: \u201cIt\u2019s been devastating for the whole family. We still can\u2019t come to terms with what happened that morning, we are still in shock.

\n\u201cAzim was young, bubbly, caring and full of happiness. He had so much potential that he will never be able to fulfil.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFiasal has replayed the whole murder over and over again in his own mind after it was captured on the bus CCTV system, harrowing footage he has since watched. He said: \u201cMy brother was purely innocent in the whole confrontation.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was 8am and the bus was full, but nobody intervened despite all of the verbal abuse that was aimed at him from the back of the bus.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cHe was stood at the front and the attacker was shouting at him from the back.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe bus got to about to the third stop and Azim used his own initiative to try and get off the bus. But the attacker barged through people to get to him and stabbed him through the heart as he had one foot on the bus and one foot off it.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThey both ran in opposite directions and the camera captures the moment my brother collapses in the street. It was a cowardly attack and those images will stay with me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cNobody should leave this world like that and nobody should take a life like that.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAzim was en route to his first full day at Bournville College on September 16 last year when he bumped into 17-year-old Azeem Akhtar on the No 2 bus in Moseley.<\/p>\n


\nThe 16-year-old, from Yardley, died from a single stab wound to the chest after being stabbed by Akhtar. It\u2019s understood the pair had fallen out months earlier with Azeem Akhtar telling friends he lunged at Azim with the kitchen knife in revenge for being \u201csnaked” – a slang term for insulted. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16-year-old was Murdered Going to School The family of a murdered schoolboy have unveiled a bench in his name. Azim Azam\u2019s family spoke for the first time since the incident which cruelly took the life of the 16-year-old. \u00a0 The tragic student\u2019s older brother Fiasal, 26, spoke movingly about his younger sibling on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}