The boy who discovered the battered body of Amar Aslam told yesterday of how gangs of youths had “bragged” of the killing and of jumping on their victim’s head.

James Taylor, 13, explained how he alerted the emergency services and tried desperately to revive Amar after he and a friend found him in a park in Dewsbury. In a graphic account the boy said that youths had been urging other teenagers to go to see the bloodstained body of Amar, 17, in a walled part of Crow Nest Park.

James and his friend were shocked when they found Amar not breathing and with a visibly broken jaw and numerous head wounds. He said: “My friend came up to me and said that people had run up to him and were bragging about jumping a boy and jumping on his head. They said they had left him in the flower garden for dead and said, ‘Go and have a look’.”

James said that he saw Amar slumped on the ground. He said: “He was lying on his left side, not breathing. So we went down and I put my head next to his ear to see if he was breathing. I couldn’t hear anything. My friend rang 999 and they told us to do CPR so I started pushing on his chest. Nothing happened. We waited for an ambulance to come and kept him in the correct position.”

It was while waiting for help that James realised the severity of Amar’s injuries. “He looked like he had a broken jaw and a cut behind his right ear which was dripping blood all over his mouth.” he said.

In the interview with the BBC, James said that he had become used to teenage gang warfare, a problem that blighted the town’s streets and schools.

Asked if discovering Amar’s body was frightening, he replied: “It’s not surprising living in Dewsbury; jumpings, beating up, everything.” He said that gangs fought over “turf, drugs and girls” and that it was sometimes frightening to walk the streets in the town.

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