Anwar Kaddah, 21, was stabbed to death while walking between a fight in Malmö. The perpetrator was under the age of 18 and was sentenced to three years in youth care, and the family is now fighting for Anwar’s killer to receive a harsher sentence. – We sat at home and waited with presents but he never came home again, says his mother Ahod Al-Tamimi. Anwar Kaddah had an internship at a construction site and was thinking of training as a physical education teacher, but everything was shattered one summer evening when he was going out to eat with a friend. Suddenly some men appeared and started arguing. A then 16-year-old boy first attacked his friend with a knife. When Anwar wanted to protect him, he himself was stabbed, just half an hour before the stroke of twelve, and before his birthday. – We sat at home and waited with presents, but he never came home again. His sister had shown him a present a few days before and joked that he probably didn’t know what it was. But he was never allowed to open the gift that contained one of his favorite perfumes, says Anwar’s mother Ahod Al-Tamimi to TV4 Nyheterna when she shows him his room. On Thursday, the Court of Appeal will announce its verdict in the high-profile case. In the player above, the mother talks about the sadness and loss.
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Ahod’s son was murdered on his birthday: “I didn’t have time to say congratulations”
