Teen thug training to be boxer who killed tragic footballer unmasked as he turns 18
Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email
The teen thug who killed a football player on New Year's Day 2017 has had their identity revealed after turning 18.
Mohammed Ibnomer could not be identified previously because of his age, but after turning 18 today he can now be named.
After suffering a deadly blow from Ibnomer, footballer Shaun Woodburn, died from massive head injuries, the Daily Record reports.
Ibnomer was training to be a boxer when his punch killed the dad-of-one.
The teen thug was due to go into the ring this month for his first amateur bout and was a member of Edinburgh's Meadowbank amateur boxing club, run by former Scottish champion Alex Arthur.
(Image: Internet Unknown)
A source said: “Mohammed, or Moses as he was known, knew how to throw a punch that would hurt his victim. His boxing training saw to that.
“This is a teenager that was part of a gang who cruised the streets of the capital causing mayhem wherever they went.
“Most boxers keep their punches for the ring but this thug took pride in his ability to fight.
“He would come in and train but a lot of the time he used to just f*** about with his mates.”
The source added: “There was a crowd of them always hanging around each other and they acted like gangsters when really they were just silly boys.”
(Image: UGC MSN)
Ibnomer was originally charged with murder. But the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
He was sentenced to just four years behind bars and could be freed as early as next year.
A social media post shows the twisted mind set of the killer.
A photo of him lolling on a sofa has the caption: “To Young to Kill’.
(Image: David Johnstone Photography)
(Image: PA)
Today, Ibnomer is spending his 18th in the Young Offenders Institution at Polmont, near Falkirk.
His birthday falls the day after ex-junior footballer Shaun would have turned 32.
A police source said: “Ibnomer and his friends had been known to us for minor incidents in the past. He was a menace, a wide boy and a bully.
“He’d had some behaviour issues at school prior to killing Shaun Woodburn and had taken up boxing, presumably in an attempt to stem some of his aggression.”
Shaun was killed in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2017 after he had been celebrating at Gladstones bar in Leith.
(Image: UGC MSN)
(Image: Edinburgh Evening News /SWNS.com)
Ibnomer and friend Mohammed Zakariyah were in a group who had been causing trouble across the city that night, attacking strangers at random during a two-hour rampage.
He admitted assaulting five other people, including one man who needed surgery for his injuries.
When the group arrived outside Gladstones, a brawl broke out and Ibnomer, who was 16 at the time, punched innocent bystander Shaun.
The soft sentence given to the killer sparked public outrage.
Shaun’s family launched a petition, signed by more than 70,000 members of the public, urging the Crown Office to appeal against the sentence. Lord Advocate James Wolffe refused.
Media was previously prevented from naming Ibnomer because the law bans identification of under-18s in criminal cases.
Zakariyah, 19, was ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to two assaults and a breach of the peace.