In the quiet hours before dawn on November 25, a disturbance on a village street in Somercotes ended a young man's life and set in motion the slow machinery of justice. Peshang Sleman, 22, was found gravely injured near a local Co-op and died at hospital, while four men — armed, it is alleged, with bat, baton, and blade — now face murder charges. The case reminds us that violence rarely arrives alone, and that its aftermath reaches far beyond the moment of its happening.
Four charged with murder after Somercotes death
Peshang Sleman, 22, died from injuries sustained in the disturbance; a second man was injured but survived.
Two men injured, one pronounced dead before dawn
Mark
So what actually happened that night? The reporting doesn't really say.
Mimi
That's the honest answer—we don't know yet. Police found two injured men near a Co-op at 1:40 in the morning. One died, one walked away. Four men got charged with murder, but the charging documents don't explain what the disturbance was about or how it started.
Luke
Right. And that matters because "disturbance" could mean anything. A fight that got out of hand? A planned confrontation? We're told about the weapons—bat, baton, blade—but not who used what or on whom.
Mimi
The weapons charges do suggest investigators have physical evidence linking specific people to specific items. But you're right that we're seeing the end result, not the story.
Mark
Four men charged, but only one died. So what happened to the second injured man?
Mimi
He was treated and discharged. His injuries weren't serious. But we don't know if he was involved in the fight or if he was caught in the middle.
Luke
And we don't know if he's a witness, or if he's connected to any of the defendants. The reporting just leaves him there.
Mark
The defendants—they're from different places. Somercotes, Surrey, Nottingham. Does that tell us anything?
Mimi
It suggests this wasn't a purely local incident. People traveled to be there, or they happened to be there. But without knowing the relationships between them or between them and Sleman, it's hard to say what that means.
Luke
And Sleman himself—22 years old, lived locally. We know his name, his age, his address. But nothing about who he was, what he was doing out at 1:40 in the morning, or whether he knew any of the four men charged.
Mark
So the family knows he's dead, and four men are in custody. But the full story—that's still being built in the investigation.
Mimi
Exactly. The court appearance on November 29 was just the formal next step. The real details would come out later, in evidence.
O Pulso
- A 1:40 a.m. emergency call brought police and ambulance crews to Somercotes Hill, where two men lay injured in the street — one of whom would not survive.
- Peshang Sleman, just 22 years old, was rushed to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where he was pronounced dead, leaving a family to absorb an irreversible loss.
- Within days, four men were charged with murder, with additional weapons offences — a baseball bat, a baton, a bladed article — suggesting a coordinated and heavily armed confrontation.
- All four defendants were remanded in custody with no bail granted, due before Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on November 29 as the case begins its passage toward Crown Court.
In the quiet hours before dawn on November 25, a disturbance on a village street in Somercotes ended a young man's life and set in motion the slow machinery of justice. Peshang Sleman, 22, was found gravely injured near a local Co-op and died at hospital, while four men — armed, it is alleged, with bat, baton, and blade — now face murder charges. The case reminds us that violence rarely arrives alone, and that its aftermath reaches far beyond the moment of its happening.
In the early hours of November 25, emergency services were called to Somercotes Hill near the local Co-op, where two men had been found injured. One, Peshang Sleman — a 22-year-old resident of Nottingham Road in Somercotes — was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where he died from his injuries. The second man sustained minor wounds and was treated and released. Sleman's family was informed of his death.
Within days, four men were charged with his murder. Mohammed Rasulii, 32, and Herish Zandi, 29, both of Somercotes Hill, faced murder charges alongside separate weapons offences — a baseball bat and a baton respectively. Sam Mohazeri, 24, from Caterham in Surrey, was charged with murder and carrying a bladed article in public. Danyaal Panahi, 21, of St Ann's in Nottingham, was charged with murder alone. The distinct weapon allegations tied to different individuals suggested investigators had built a detailed picture of events at the scene.
All four were held in custody without bail, due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on November 29. Murder cases of this gravity typically move on to Crown Court for trial. For those who knew Peshang Sleman, the charges offered a measure of accountability — though nothing that could undo what was lost in those early morning hours on a village street.
Early on the morning of November 25, police and ambulance crews arrived at Somercotes Hill near the Co-op in Somercotes, a village on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, responding to reports of a disturbance. The call came in around 1:40 a.m. When officers reached the scene, they found two men injured. One was rushed to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where doctors pronounced him dead. The other man's injuries were assessed as minor, and he was treated and released.
The dead man was identified as Peshang Sleman, 22, who lived on Nottingham Road in Somercotes. His family was notified of his death. The circumstances surrounding the disturbance—what sparked it, who was involved in the initial confrontation—were not immediately disclosed in the police statement, but the severity of Sleman's injuries made clear this was not a minor altercation.
Within days, police charged four men with murder in connection with Sleman's death. Mohammed Rasulii, 32, of Somercotes Hill, was charged with murder and with threatening another person with an offensive weapon, specifically a baseball bat. Herish Zandi, 29, also of Somercotes Hill, faced murder charges alongside a count of possessing an offensive weapon—a baton. Sam Mohazeri, 24, who lived in Croydon Road in Caterham, Surrey, was charged with murder and with carrying a bladed article in a public place. Danyaal Panahi, 21, of Kelvedon Gardens in St Ann's, Nottingham, was charged with murder alone.
All four men were held in police custody following their arrests. The charges suggested a coordinated incident involving multiple people and multiple weapons, though the exact sequence of events and each person's specific role remained unclear from the initial charging documents. The presence of distinct weapon allegations—a bat, a baton, a blade—indicated that investigators had gathered evidence linking different implements to different individuals at the scene.
On November 29, four days after Sleman's death, all four defendants were due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court. They remained in custody pending that hearing, with no bail granted. The case would move through the court system from there, though murder charges of this nature typically proceed to Crown Court for trial. For Sleman's family, the formal charging of four men marked a step toward accountability, but the loss itself was irreversible.
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Peshang Sleman was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham but was pronounced dead by doctors. His family have been informed.— Police statement
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