Nowhere Left To Turn / The Murder Of Bijan Ebrahimi

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They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Bijan Ebrahimi lived on the ground floor in a four-storey block of flats located on Capgrave Crescent in Bristol. Bijan, a shy man and an Iranian immigrant, suffered from health problems that left him disabled. He had a close bond with his family and took joy in tending to his garden in a communal area that overlooked the surrounding flats. Despite being quiet, he didn't go unnoticed. He was verbally abused by some of his neighbours, as he was seen as being “different” and viewed as an easy target by his tormentors. His pleas to the local authorities for help were met with complacency, and Bijan was dismissed as being a pest and annoyance. Bijan recorded some of these incidents. However, this antagonised a gang of nearly two dozen residents who surrounded Bijan’s flat in July 2013...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
0:30.3	Listener caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
0:43.3	Bijan Ibrahimi lived on the ground floor in a four-story block of flats located on Capgrave Crescent in Bristol. Bejan, a shy man and an Iranian immigrant suffered from health problems that left him disabled.
0:50.3	He had a close bond with his family and took joy intending to his garden in a communal area that overlooked the surrounding flats.
0:59.5	Despite being quiet, he didn't go unnoticed.
1:02.7	He was verbally abused by some of his neighbours, as he was seen as being different, viewed as an easy target by his tormentors.
1:11.2	His pleas to local authorities for help were met with complacency and Bijan was dismissed
1:17.0	as being a pest and an annoyance.
1:19.9	Bijan recorded some of these incidents, however this antagonised a gang of nearly two dozen
1:25.3	residents who surrounded Bijan's flat in July 2013.
1:30.3	Bijan Ibrahimi was born in Tehran, the capital of Iran, in 1969, and was the youngest of five siblings, three girls and two boys.
1:52.0	His father was a railway engineer and his mother was a homemaker.
1:57.0	From a young age, Bijan had a thirst for knowledge. He was an avid reader and loved to play table tennis, even entering the national ranks as a table tennis champion in Iran.
2:08.6	Unfortunately, in his youth, he had to put his hobbies aside and dedicate his life to caring for his parents.
2:15.6	His mother had a stroke when Bijan was 12 and he looked after
2:19.7	her until she passed away 10 years later. Not a year after his mother's passing, his father
2:26.0	became gravely ill and was diagnosed with cancer. Bejan also took on the responsibility
2:31.9	of caring for his father until he died a few years later in 1994.
2:37.4	As Bijan had spent most of his formative years looking after his parents,
2:41.9	he didn't get the chance to gain a further education in Iran.
2:45.6	It was something he so desperately wanted.
2:48.2	Two of his sisters had already emigrated to the UK in the early 90s,
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