12-07-2025
Two men who killed young Peterborough father jailed
Two men who killed a young father by ramming him off his bike with their car and lying about the incident have been sentenced.
Shwan Sabah, 24 and Ako Mohammed, 34, left Ben Proctor, 19 to die of his injuries before calling emergency services an hour and a half after the collision happened in Peterborough on Sunday 15 September last year.
During a trial at Cambridge Crown Court, it was heard that both men had pursued Ben after they caught him breaking into a car compound in Wellington Street before knocking him from his bike.
The men dragged him from underneath a hedge, unconscious but alive, and dumped him in the vehicle's boot.
They then drove to meet two other men, Zamkar Mohammad-Majid, 48, and Hawkar Mohammadi, 40 who helped in an attempt to cover up the crime.
Mohammed returned to the car compound and called 999 once he believed Ben had died. He lied saying upon his arrival he had found the teenager sat on the ground, asking for water. He went to find water, but on his return, he claimed Ben had become unresponsive and dialled 999.
However, the jury heard that, after Mohammad had seen Ben at the compound, he called Sabah, who rushed to the scene and picked him up in his red Kia Soul car.
On Friday, Sabah, of Holdich Street, Peterborough, was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 20 years, for murder; 11 years, to run concurrently, for false imprisonment, and two-and-a-half years, to run concurrently, for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Mohammad, of Oundle Road, Peterborough, was jailed for 24 years, to serve a minimum of 16, for manslaughter; 13 years, to run concurrently, for false imprisonment; and three years, to run concurrently, for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Zamkar Mohammad-Majid, 48, and Hawkar Mohammadi, 40, both of Lincoln Road, New England, Peterborough, were each sentenced to two years and nine months for false imprisonment and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Ben's mother, Emma Proctor, said her son's murder had caused the family 'unbearable pain'.
'There are no words strong enough to express the pain of losing him, and yet, I stand here because Ben mattered. His life mattered,' she said.
'One of the greatest joys of Ben's life was becoming a father to his beautiful son. No child should have to grow up without a parent."
