Family of knife-obsessed 15-year-old boy who stabbed Alfie Lewis to death outside primary school flee their home after their windows are smashed

The family of 15-year-old boy who murdered Leeds teenager Alfie Lewis in a knife attack outside a primary school has fled their home. 

Bardia Shojaeifard, who can now be named after reporting restrictions were lifted, pushed Alfie to the ground before he stabbed him twice 'in full view' of a group of school children. 

The windows of the house on a leafy boulevard were smashed in a revenge attack just after Alfie's life was cut tragically short.

Neighbours later heard banging late at night as the windows of the property in Leeds, West Yorkshire, were boarded up.

The parents, who are believed to have another son, have not been seen since.

The lower ground floor of the house has been boarded up on one side.

The garden is sprouting weeds and net curtains still hang in the surviving windows.

One neighbour said: 'No one is there at present. The thugs came and smashed the windows the day after.

'So the parents had to be moved out. We have no idea where.

'It all happened while we were away. We were 200 miles away coming up the M1 when we got a phone call from the police.

'When we got home the windows were smashed and someone was boarding them up in the middle of the night.

'They were nice people.'

The boy , who was 14 at the time of the killing, was convicted of murder in May following a two-week trial at Leeds Crown Court.

Another neighbour said: 'We didn't really know the family they were so quiet.

'So we could not believe it when Alfie died. The house was attacked in the middle of the night. We woke up to see the police outside and it being boarded up.'

Shojaeifard, who was 14 at the time of the killing in November 2023, received a life sentence having been convicted of murder. 

Alfie, 15, was stabbed to death in a 'senseless' attack 'in full view' of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of Leeds.

Leeds Crown Court heard Shojaeifard had a 'worrying interest in knives' and police found several pictures on his phone of him holding them, including one where a blade had been photoshopped into his hand.

One image showed the defendant holding a knife and wearing a scarf around his face.

During the trial, jurors heard the photo was taken while visiting relatives last summer, and Shojaeifard's father said the knife was a 'model'.

He told jurors Shojaieifard's uncle makes knives and they had been talking to the children about their cultural heritage, but prosecutors said it showed the defendant had 'more than a passing interest in knives'.

Another photo showed Shojaeifard posing with a black-handled knife that had been photoshopped into his hand.

The judge, Mr Justice Cotter, said the defendant was 'objectively an ordinary 14-year-old, from a loving and supportive family undertaking entirely appropriate activities when out of school'.

'He has no connection with gangs or indeed any negative peer pressure, no involvement with drugs or mental health issues,' the judge said.

'However he did have a worrying interest in knives as revealed by photographs on his phone including photoshopping knives into his hand.'

The court heard that on the day of the murder Shojaeifard took a 13cm-long kitchen knife from home with him to school, and carried it around in his trousers all day before attacking Alfie on his way home.

The court heard that since Alfie's murder Shojaeifard's parents have had to leave their home after receiving threats.

Nicholas Lumley, defending, said he was 'the son of utterly decent, supportive and loving decent parents' who were 'thriving in this adoptive country'.