The gang who beat teenager Amar Aslam to death in a park bragged about having 'jumped a boy' and recorded his last moments on their mobile phones, it was claimed today.James Taylor, 13, told how he performed emergency first aid on 17-year-old Amar in the walled garden of the park in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, before paramedics arrived. In a BBC interview, James said: "A friend came up to me and said people ran up to him bragging about jumping a boy, stamping on his head and have left him in the flower garden dead. Go and have a look but keep it on the low."
Police today continued to question six schoolchildren and a 20-year-old man about the savage murder in Crow Nest Park in the town on Sunday. Officers have refused to comment on reports Amar's killers may have recorded the brutal last moments of the 17-year-old's life and later swapped the footage on their phones.
Asked about whether there were gangs operating in the area, James said: "It's a problem. There are gangs and it's just over turf and over drugs and girls and stuff like that." He said he was "just scared to walk the streets alone - it's not safe".
Police have been told the 'sustained and brutal' attack was captured on mobile phone and are now trying to find the crucial evidence.
Amar's body was found at 7.10pm on Sunday by two passers-by in a walled garden in Crow Nest Park in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. A postmortem examination has revealed he died of serious head injuries.
The lone teenager is thought to have been killed by a gang looking for cash and drugs. When his attackers found he only had about £10 in his pockets they kicked, punched and stamped on him and struck him up to 18 times with the piece of wood.
The victim's sister Samreen spoke last night of how his family had been 'shattered' by the murder. She said: 'Nothing can replace our brother and we still believe he will come through the door.
'It won't be the same without him. There will always be a gap when there is a part missing.'
Locals said the park was a favourite haunt of gangs of youths, but friends said Amar was a 'quiet lad' who usually went out alone and never became involved in a gang culture. A neighbour said: 'He didn't like confrontation, he was so shy he would cross the road to avoid speaking to you.
'Whoever has done this is such a coward. Amar was slimly built, he had some illnesses in the past and even looked frail.
One gang of Asian youths in the area is known as the Ravey Terror Squad, but it is not known whether the suspects were members of this group of 'petty young crooks'.
Amar was the youngest of four children of Mohammed and Rehana Aslam. Mr Aslam, in his late 60s, is returning from Pakistan where he was visiting relatives with his other son.
There was shock last night locally that children could be suspects in such a brutal murder. Karam Hussain, Mayor of Kirklees and friend of the Aslams, said: 'The family is devastated and so is the community. Parents have got to keep an eye on their children, especially after school and in the school holidays.
'This sort of thing is just not acceptable and parents have to take responsibility.'
Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik said: 'We have to get the message across that violence is not acceptable.
'At the moment I do not think the law is being applied as it might; I do not think harsh enough sentences are being imposed.
'Parents need to be more alert and take a far greater responsibility for their children. And the community has a responsibility to work more closely with the police.