Moments after fatal stabbing captured in CCTV footage shown to jury

Kamran Rasool Aman, looking at the camera. His head is slightly tilted to one side, and he wears a blue t-shirt and has short black hair.Image source, Family Photo
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Kamran Rasool Aman died from a stab wound to the heart, the court was told

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CCTV showing the final moments of a dad-of-two after he was stabbed to death has been shown to a jury.

Kamran Rasool Aman, 38, was knifed in the heart just after midnight on 1 July in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

He had just locked the door of his mother's home and going to his car when he was attacked.

Two defendants, aged 16 and 17 and from Llantwit Major, have admitted manslaughter but deny murder. They cannot be named because of their age.

The footage shows a fatally wounded Mr Aman entering the house after the woman who lived there opened there door, hearing a disturbance.

Her doorbell camera shows him in her hallway.

"You need to get out of my house," the jury at Cardiff Crown Court heard her say.

Mr Aman replies: "I've been stabbed."

Mr Aman is then seen on the pavement with the woman calling 999, telling them he'd been stabbed.

Mr Aman is heard saying: "I'm losing consciousness."

More footage from the security camera on his mother's windowsill showed the attack happened one minute and 35 seconds after he had left her house on Barry Road.

It showed Mr Aman being confronted, being racially abused, and the 17-year-old holding an object in his hand. Mr Aman can then be heard screaming.

Owen Edwards KC, prosecuting, said previously the defendants had been drinking heavily from early in the day.

He said Mr Aman was attacked "for no good reason, by two young men fuelled by drink and rage".

The pair hurled racial slurs at Mr Aman, and made offensive comments about his mother.

The court was also shown police body-worn camera footage of the boys being arrested, minutes after Mr Aman was attacked.

The 16-year-old could be heard shouting to the 17-year-old: "We haven't done nothing."

Mr Aman was pronounced dead at 01:07 BST on 1 July.

An officer can be heard telling the 16-year-old: "Unfortunately he (Mr Aman) has now died."

He replies: "I'm so sorry, I don't deserve to live. I'm not getting done for murder. I can't deal with it."

The jury was then shown a photograph of a kitchen knife which the prosecution said was used to stab Mr Aman.

The trial continues.