A teenager who fell 60ft from a block of flats after attempting to escape a gang of youths was cradled in his brother’s arms as he lay dying.

Ahmed Benyarmak, 16, had tried to scale down the outside of the tower block in Hackney, east London, on Wednesday but lost his grip.

His younger brother Munir had also been pursued by the gang but escaped down a lift. He emerged to hear Ahmed screaming and saw him fall.

Munir ran to his brother and held him in his arms until paramedics arrived. Ahmed died at the scene despite attempts to revive him.

Members of Munir’s family say he has been traumatised by the incident. “Munir just stays in his room and he does not talk or eat or sleep,” said his aunt Mina Benyarmak.

Scotland Yard are treating Ahmed’s death as unlawful killing. Detectives have released a CCTV picture of five members of the gang leaving on bikes.

A sixth member ran away after being confronted by a resident. His bike has been taken away by police for forensic examination.

Ahmed’s mother Naima said his GCSE results were excellent when they arrived the following day. “This should have been the happiest day of our lives but it has turned into the saddest,” she said.

“My boy passed all nine of his GCSEs but did not live to realise what he achieved.”

Residents on the estate have claimed that the hooded gang were drug dealers.

A friend of Ahmed, who asked not to be named, said: “Ahmed’s friends had been called by mobile and warned that a gang of six black men armed with knives were looking for them.

“But they dismissed the message as a hoax.”

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