‘I wish I could trade my life with his,’ says Toronto man on trial for stabbing student
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Breaking down in tears on the stand in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday, Ahmed Rafin testified that the day his friend was fatally stabbed, he went to protect him.
Breaking down in tears on the stand in a University Avenue courtroom Tuesday, Ahmed Rafin told Madam Justice Katherine B. Corrick that on the day his friend Maahir Dosani was fatally stabbed outside Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Nov. 16, 2021, he went there to protect him.
But Dosani ended up being the one to protect Rafin when he was swarmed by a group of students.
“I really, really wish I could trade my life with his. I really don’t want to be alive anymore,” Rafin wept.
Testifying in his own defence at the judge-alone trial where he’s charged with manslaughter, Rafin, who was 19 at the time, said he went to meet Dosani at school because his 15-year-old friend wanted to fight with a boy who Dosani said had beaten him up a few weeks earlier.
“He basically wanted me and a couple of his school friends to be there to make sure he didn’t get jumped and he could have his one-on-one fight,” Rafin said.
He admitted he was immature at the time and did not think things through, denying he was planning to fight despite the fact he brought a knife to school with him that day.
“I don’t know what was in Maahir’s mind,” he said. “He was just sick and tired of being bullied all the time. He wanted to show others who bullied him he can stand up for himself.”
Rafin said he met Dosani in an Instagram group chat in 2018 but didn’t know how old he was.
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