- He was found with a balaclava hiding his face from CCTV lying in a pool of blood by a child’s swing after residents were alerted by the youngsters, an inquest in Bradford was told
A boy was speared to death by shard of glass after falling through a greenhouse in a horror accident on bonfire night, an inquest has heard.
Mohammed Qais Ratyal, 17, was stabbed through his chest when he plunged into the garden of a house in Halifax, West Yorkshire, he and his friends were ‘garden hopping’ and setting off fireworks on November 5 last year.
He was found with a balaclava hiding his face from CCTV lying in a pool of blood by a child’s swing after residents were alerted by the youngsters, an inquest in Bradford was told.
Qais was rushed by ambulance to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary but was pronounced dead at 9.46pm that night.
The deadly shard had punctured the right side of his chest, causing a catastrophic haemorrhage and the collapse of his right lung.
The teen was in a group that travelled from Bradford to Halifax last year, and were later seen in Vickerman Street.
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Qais’ cousin, Ummat Ratyan, said he and Qais were part of a group of 10 to 15 people.
He said: ‘There were around 200 people firing rockets into the street.. We had rockets too.’I was wearing a balaclava. We put them on because we were scared the cameras would see us.
‘We started running. I followed everyone. We jumped over a wall into allotments and then we jumped over garden fences. Qais led the group. Then I heard some shouting.
‘He found Qais ‘sitting and leaning forwards, but he didn’t speak and his body flopped and his hands were trembling. He tried to lift his head up but couldn’t’.
Resident Aleksandra Gizewska said: ‘I saw people running down my driveway and then when I opened the door I heard a smash. I shouted at them to get out.
‘I saw people go over a fence but some of them came back and said they had lost someone and wanted to check on him.
‘We then found him laying in the garden next to a bench in a pool of blood.
‘He was trying to catch his breath. My neighbour Kim found the wound and the ambulance service told us to press hard to stop the blood.
‘Then the ambulance arrived, they brought out a stretcher and took him in.’
