By James Simons
A man has been found guilty at the Old Bailey, of the murder of a 24-year-old computer graduate.
22-year-old Harris Raana was found guilty of murdering Seyyed Rasta Mir-Feyzi in Finchley last summer by driving a car at him deliberately. He also pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified. Mir-Feyzi had completed a bachelors in Computer Network Security at Westminster University not long before
Both were found guilty by a majority jury at the Old Bailey on Friday, 9 February.
Police were called at 20:35hrs on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 to reports of a car in collision with a pedestrian in the car park of the Great North Leisure Park off High Road, Finchley.
Mir-Feyzi was involved in a fight with a group of boys and was assaulted in the process at the car park number of people in the car park.
Shortly afterwards a car was deliberately driven at him, without regard for his safety.
Seyyed was rushed by London’s Air Ambulance to an east London hospital. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead on Thursday, 1 June 2017.
A post-mortem examination took place on 5 June 2017 at Northwick Park Hospital Mortuary and gave the cause of death as catastrophic head injury.
The car – a white BMW – was abandoned at the location but Rana and Ibrahim fled the scene heading towards Finchley High Road.They were arrested on 4 June 2017 and charged two days later.
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Detective Chief Inspector Gary Holmes, from the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: “Rana’s use of his car as a murder weapon, in the same way, that some people use knives, is one of the most repulsive attacks I have seen.
“He is a truly vicious person, who I’m extremely glad is off the streets.”
“I hope that today’s conviction brings the family of Mr Mir-fayzi a measure of comfort.”
Mr Mir-Feyzi, Seyyed’s father, added: “Since my son’s death, the man responsible for his murder has also killed my family and me too. I feel like I have lost a part of my body. Knowing that he can never come back has left me and my wife broken.”
“We donated our son’s organs and from this, parts of our son live on. Four people have the gift of life because of his death. We were informed that a man in his 30s received one kidney, a female in her 20s received the other, a man in his 30s received his liver and another man in his 40s received our son’s heart.
“It is terrible that his life was cut short in such an unnecessary way. He had a future, he wanted to join the Royal Navy or the Police. He had plans; he had an amazing life; he was loved and I know he would have gone on to do great things.”
Murderers never consider the family of their victim when they commit their evil act. They are driven by excessive rage which takes over all reasoning, to the extent of them overlooking the legal consequences of their actions. The emotional and life sentence on the family of their victim never occurs to them at the time, since their own likely incarceration as a result of their actions escapes their thought process quite conveniently.