A SOMALI teenager was battered to death in Liverpool’s Sefton Park after a row about Muslims drinking alcohol, a court heard yesterday.

Ahmed Mohammed Ibra-him, 17, was attacked with a Samurai sword, bats, machete and a metal pipe on March 10.

A jury was told one of the five defendants accused of murder shouted ‘he’s still alive!’ as the victim lay help-less with blows raining down upon him. He was left bleed-ing in the road with severe head injuries and died in hospital two hours later.

His cousin, who was also attacked, had the tip of his left index finger amputated by a machete.

Brothers Khadar Moham-med, 23, Essa Mohammed Ismail, 22, and Ali Moham-med, 19, of Ritson Street, Tox-teth; and brothers Ahmed Kayse Ahmed, 30, of London, and Ibrahim Ahmed, 23, of Beaconsfield Street, Toxteth – cousins of the first three defendants – all deny murder.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the victim left his Tox-teth home after cousin Ahmed Mohamoud Ahmed, 16, had agreed a “straightener” fight with a rival following a dispute the day before.

Tim Holroyde QC, prosecu-ting, said Ali Mohammed made a disparaging remark to Ahmed Mohamoud Ahmed about him drinking alcohol, a grave insult to his Muslim religion, at a talk at the Al-Ghazali centre, in Edge Hill.

Given by a recent convert to Islam, it was on the theme of keeping out of trouble.