Smash hit

Mr Young-Sam, his older brother, Zephaniah, and two friends were returning home at around 7pm. They spotted a mob of Asian men breaking windows they hurried away from the gangs towards their home.

Minutes later, two cars pulled up and the men, believed to have been Asian, launched the attack on the black men.

Mr Young-Sam was stabbed in the chest. One of his friends needed surgery for stab wounds to his buttocks.

Benji Brown, a 22-year-old neighbour, said that he helped to get Mr Young-Sam into the back of a car to take him to hospital.

He said: “I was driving down the road and saw Isaiah lying on the ground. His brother Zephaniah was shouting for help.

“Isaiah was lifeless, he was caked in blood. It was pouring out of his heart where he was stabbed.

“He was a really nice guy. He was gentle and would never get involved with gangs or violence.”

“I just don’t understand why anybody would do this. He was very hardworking — I’d always see him in the morning wearing a shirt and tie.

“He was a very respectable member of the community.”

Mr Young-Sam, a former pupil of Dartmouth High School, Aston Manor and St George’s Primary in Newtown, had displayed considerable skill with computers from an early age.

Glyn Evans, the director of business solutions and IT at the council, said that his colleagues were devastated at their former trainee’s murder.

“He was a very popular and hard-working young man with a bright future ahead of him,” he said.

Mr Young-Sam was also a keep-fit fanatic and trained regularly at the gym at Newtown Community Centre near his home.

A large bunch of flowers was left propped up against a set of red gates in the road where he was attacked.

The message on the card read: “Rest in peace on the right-hand side of God. Missing you already.”

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