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Navid Niran died because he wanted a cigarette, the Crown told an Ottawa jury on Tuesday.
On Jan. 21, 2012, the 24-year-old father of a newborn son was celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Dalhousie Street nightclub. Niran stepped outside on the rooftop patio and tried to get a smoke from a stranger who was busy on his phone and was clearly angered by Niran’s repeated requests.
So annoyed, the Crown said, in opening remarks for the first-degree murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi, 22, that the man waited outside in a black sedan for Niran to emerge from the bar. Shortly before 2:30 a.m., Niran left the club and the accused struck, the Crown alleges.
Niran was stabbed four times, twice in the stomach, and twice in the heart with a knife with a nine-centimetre blade, court heard.
“He was waiting to kill,” Crown attorney Julien Lalande told the jury, adding, “This all started over a cigarette.”
The prosecutor told the jury that Hafizi was running away before Niran hit the sidewalk.
A police officer was flagged down and right after paramedics got Niran inside an ambulance, his heart stopped. Surgeons later would try to revive him by pumping his heart manually, but failed.
The jury heard that Niran didn’t have a chance to defend himself in the 11-second attack, seemingly confirmed by an autopsy that concluded he had no defensive wounds.
The prosecutor also told the jury ‘This case is not a whodunnit,” noting that the accused has admitted he was in an “altercation” with Niran on the night in question.
The jury was also shown video footage from inside the club on Jan. 22 which shows Niran in the club heading toward the patio.
The Crown said that Niran’s blood was on the knife, and the accused’s DNA was on the handle of the weapon.
Earlier in the day, Hafizi, represented by Oliver Abergel and Howard Krongold, formally pleaded not guilty.
The trial continues before Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips.
gdimmock@postmedia.com
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On Jan. 21, 2012, the 24-year-old father of a newborn son was celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Dalhousie Street nightclub. Niran stepped outside on the rooftop patio and tried to get a smoke from a stranger who was busy on his phone and was clearly angered by Niran’s repeated requests.
So annoyed, the Crown said, in opening remarks for the first-degree murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi, 22, that the man waited outside in a black sedan for Niran to emerge from the bar. Shortly before 2:30 a.m., Niran left the club and the accused struck, the Crown alleges.
Niran was stabbed four times, twice in the stomach, and twice in the heart with a knife with a nine-centimetre blade, court heard.
“He was waiting to kill,” Crown attorney Julien Lalande told the jury, adding, “This all started over a cigarette.”
The prosecutor told the jury that Hafizi was running away before Niran hit the sidewalk.
A police officer was flagged down and right after paramedics got Niran inside an ambulance, his heart stopped. Surgeons later would try to revive him by pumping his heart manually, but failed.
The jury heard that Niran didn’t have a chance to defend himself in the 11-second attack, seemingly confirmed by an autopsy that concluded he had no defensive wounds.
The prosecutor also told the jury ‘This case is not a whodunnit,” noting that the accused has admitted he was in an “altercation” with Niran on the night in question.
The jury was also shown video footage from inside the club on Jan. 22 which shows Niran in the club heading toward the patio.
The Crown said that Niran’s blood was on the knife, and the accused’s DNA was on the handle of the weapon.
Earlier in the day, Hafizi, represented by Oliver Abergel and Howard Krongold, formally pleaded not guilty.
The trial continues before Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips.
gdimmock@postmedia.com
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