Sheffield solicitor murder: Khuram Javed's killers jailed for life after shooting 'beloved' father-of-two

Khuram Javed, who was described as the “centre of his community”, died when he was gunned down and stabbed on the path near Bramall Lane on April 10 last year. He was 31.

Today, his killers – Samsul Mohammed, 20, of Wolseley Roadd, and Tinashe Kampira, 20, of Donovan Road – were sentenced to life in prison, with a combined minimum term of 58 years.

“The sentence for murder is life imprisonment, and life imprisonment means just that,” said Her Honour Mrs Justice Lambert.

“Neither of you must ever be released,” she added.

The judge further called the two killers’ accounts – namely they were only in the area near that night to ‘admire’ one of Khuram’s friends’ car, and that the father-of-two was stabbed because he attacked them with a knife first and they had to defend themselves – as “incredible”, “nonsense” and that she “rejected it entirely”.

Samsul’s two older brothers – Sohidul Mohamed, aged 24, and Saydul Mohammed, aged 22, both of The Greenway, Greenhill, Sheffield – were also jailed for three and a half years each for assisting their sibling by transporting him to a safe house in Reading on the night of the murder.

In the shooting, the father-of-two was with friends at a flat near Bramall Lane when they became aware of the defendants and another man, who were acting suspiciously outside around one of the friends’ car a white VW Golf.