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❚❙ FRIENDS KILLED AND THREE INJURED IN CITY
SCENE The car
involved in the
fatal accident in
Hastings Street
news in brief
FANS ARRESTED
STUNNED shoppers
watched as City and
Aston Villa fans clashed
near Highcross shopping centre on Saturday.
Police, who had had a
tip-off hooligans could
be planning trouble,
made 11 arrests.
Five were Aston Villa
fans who threw bins and
traffic cones outside the
Richard III pub,
Highcross Street, at
3.30pm.
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TERRORIST’S WIFE
Two die in crash
TWO friends have been killed in a car
crash, which left three other people
seriously injured.
Tributes were yesterday paid to the
men who died, named locally as
Ammar Shah and Abz Patel.
They were killed when the car they
were travelling in was involved in a
collision with another vehicle in
Hastings Road, Northfields, Leicester,
at about 8.30pm on Saturday.
Four other people were injured.
BY PETER WARZYNSKI
Three of them remain in hospital in a
serious condition. Friends said
Ammar, who lived a few streets away
from the scene of the collision, had
celebrated his 21st birthday on
Thursday.
Abz, 22, of Twycross Street,
Highfields, worked in his family’s
furniture shop, in Uppingham Road.
They were both former students at
Gateway College, in Leicester.
Friend Imtiaz Sotta, 20, from
Northfields, said: “Ammar was a
really genuine person – they both
were – and Abz was about to get
married in two months.
“They always had a smile and a
laugh – never serious – it was a great
thing to be around.
“We would always be laughing.”
A single bunch of flowers and some
yellow forensic markings were the
only signs yesterday lunchtime that a
crash had happened.
Paloma Lucas, 33, who lives near
the scene, said: “You can still see the
marks on the road, but it’s a lot
different to last night.
“There were flashing blue lights and
police and firefighters everywhere.
“I heard the crash and ran over to
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THE wife of a man it is
claimed recruited one of
the Paris gunmen lives in
Leicester.
Sylvie Beghal, a
French citizen living in
Spinney Hills, Leicester,
is the wife of convicted
terrorist Djamel Beghal.
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MURDER CHARGE
BROTHERS David
Cooper (38), of
Aylestone, Leicester,
and Roger Cooper (40),
of Coventry, have been
charged with the murder
of missing Sameena
Imam.
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