Following a family feud that broke out over a mop and bucket, two men have been convicted of murdering a father-of-four in Bradford. Sarfraz Khan, 35, was stabbed to death and his three brothers seriously hurt when a row at the family ice cream business, Rossi's Ices, escalated in April last year.
Bradford Crown Court heard there had been tension between two sides of the family and the row over the mop and bucket was 'the straw that broke the camel's back'.
Basharat Khan thought his cousin, Amir Ali, was finished using a mop and bucket to clean out his ice cream van and so he began to use it to clean out his own vehicle.
A mass fight occurred in an alleyway near the participants' homes about ten minutes later, in which Sarfraz Khan was stabbed three times, dying later that night. Aftab Khan suffered a punctured lung and other stab wounds and Asad Khan received a deep cut to his face and stab wounds to his chest.
Following a trial at Bradford Crown Court, Mohammed Nasar and Tariq Mahmood (right) were found guilty of murder. Amjid Ali, 39, and Amir Ali, 19, were cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter and convicted of unlawful wounding.
A fifth defendant, 33-year-old Sajid Hussain, was found not guilty of charges of murder, manslaughter, inflicting GBH with intent and unlawful wounding.
