Father is jailed for trying to help his two murderer sons flee to Amsterdam by ferry hours after they stabbed rival to death in revenge attack over drugs
Father Farooq Ishaq Ahmed was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Leeds Crown Court yesterday after admitting two counts of assisting an offender
He attempted to help his sons escape country after they stabbed man to death
Ahmed drove sons Omar Ishaq and Kearon Barker to port in Hull so they could go to Amsterdam but they abandoned the plan as one of them did not have passport
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image captionOmar Ishaq and Kearon Barker were jailed for 22 years each over the murder of Keith Harrower in Leeds
Two brothers who stabbed a man to death in the street have each been jailed for at least 22 years.
Keith Harrower, 40, also known as Joshua French, died after the attack outside the Premier supermarket in Beeston, Leeds, in December 2019
Omar Ishaq, 34, and Kearon Barker, 32, planned the attack to send a message on behalf of a drugs gang, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Both were found guilty of murder on Wednesday.
Judge Andrew Stubbs, sentencing, said the pair had armed themselves with a knife and gone to meet Mr Harrower on Dewsbury Road.