A devastated father told today how he performed CPR on his dying son, after a hit-and-run driver mowed down three men who were ‘protecting their community against rioting and looters’.

Tariq Jahan said his hands and face were ‘covered in blood’ as he tried to save the life of 21-year-old Haroon in Birmingham.

Clearly in shock and pleading for an end to the violence that has swept across cities and towns, he said: 'I miss him dearly but two days from now the whole world will forget - no one will care.'

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: 'Tensions are already high in the area.
'It's already bad enough what we are seeing on the streets now without other people taking the law into their own hands.'

Haroon and brothers Abdul Nasir, 31, and Shazad Ali, 30, were mowed down as they stood on the pavement protecting their mosque and businesses in the community.
Today, a 32-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of murder.

The father said he was standing round the corner as the car mounted the pavement and knocked down the three young men.

He said he acted instinctively and helped - without realising his boy was one of the trio who were fatally injured.

Mr Jahan said: 'The car came up on the pavement for God knows what reason and I was standing nearby.


'I miss him but in two days no one will care': Tariq Jahan said he performed CPR on his son Haroon as he lay dying


'I heard it happen and I turned round and I saw three people on the ground and my instinct to help and I started CPR and someone told me that one of them was my son.
'I started CPR on my own son and my hands and face were covered in blood. What was the point in doing it? We are here defending the community. He was a good kid aged 21, and very well liked.'

Mohammed Chowdhri, who knew Haroon, said the three young men were on the streets protecting the mosque and businesses from rioters.

He said: 'I have known Haroon since he was a baby, we are all absolutely devastated. He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community.

'Him and the two other boys who died, Shazad and Musaver, went out to protect the mosque and the local businesses.

'They were very worried that the businesses and the mosque would be looted and destroyed.








'Haroon was a very religious boy, a very good boy, and he was doing what he thought was right. The boys took it upon themselves to put an end to the violence.

'They went to stand outside the mosque to protect it, and a car came driving round and round the nearby streets, at a really high speed. Suddenly it mounted the pavement and hit the three boys.'

Shazad Ali had recently got married, and his wife, Khansa, is four months pregnant. The men were killed while trying to protect a Muslim Community Centre, and a friend's business, from rioters as chaos spread across Birmingham last night.

A cousin of Shazad and Abdul, Sobia Nazia, said: 'They had gone for evening prayer at the community centre when they came out and saw a car circling the block.
'We had all heard about the looting and the rioting are everyone was worried that they were going to spread to our community.

'Although there hadn't been any looting there yet, the boys and their friend Haroon decided to stay out on the street and make sure no trouble started.

'They knew shops and businesses had been ransacked in Birmingham and they were worried. They decided to stay outside the community centre, and also to protect a petrol station owned by a friend. The car had driven past at a high speed several times.


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This is what makes me MAD, I mean raving MAD.

Youth today are brought up on a cocktail of greed, envy,violent games, even more violent movies, bad parenting.

3 Young boys dead, for the sake of a few items of loot.

very sad.

I hope it is not a black person that is responsible for d grotesque act because that will be utterly st.upid and unpardonable

D culprits might turn out to be EDL members like mykey taking advantage of d chaos to melt out havocs on those they most,the pakistanis. They hate them because they know d pakistanis are not just economic migrants but systematic colonizers

They are like erosion,they encroach steadily,gradually and surely unlike blacks that are unorganized,uncooperative and unsystematic. It is time u get ur acts together bruvs,stop portioning blames and take d game to d players. The game of codes not looting

Do you read the news ? Or you just make random assumptions, right ?

He was killed by blacks not whites.

Read your newspapers!!

Does 32 years old arrested suspect spell black to u? U are probably listening to junk and EDL news.

After the Birmingham race riots of 7 years ago which claimed a couple of black lives at the hands of Asians, I doubt any black man would dare go to an Asian neighbourhood in Birmingham to loot.

If you ask me what happened, I would tell you that these black guys were driving in an Asian neighbourhood, got spooked by vigilantes, decided to make a dash for it and crashed through the vigilantes to make a getaway.

I doubt anyone would be foolhardy enough to plow into a bunch of vigilantes cos if the vigilantes stop their car, na tyre dem go take roast them.

Of course I may be wrong but thats what my church mind is telling me.