Asylum seeker murdered pensioner in UK seaside city in twisted ‘revenge’ assault for Hamas | UK | News | EUROtoday

An asylum seeker has been discovered responsible of murdering a pensioner in a seaside city in a “revenge” assault over the Israel-Hamas battle. Ahmed Alid, 45, a migrant from Morocco, viciously stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney six instances in Hartlepool city centre on October 15.

The assault occurred every week after the Hamas October 7 assaults on Israel, and prosecutors instructed Teesside Crown Court he was impressed to take revenge for what he stated was “the killing of children” by the Middle Eastern nation.

The court docket heard that, simply minutes earlier, he had damaged into the bed room of Javed Nouri, 31, his housemate at Home Office-approved asylum seekers’ lodging in Wharton Terrace.

At round 5am, he hacked on the sleeping bodybuilder turned Christian convert and yelled “Allahu Akbar” – “God is great”.

Recordings of each assaults – a homicide and tried homicide for which he has now been discovered responsible – had been performed in court docket, with the sooner incident caught as one other resident positioned a 999 name.

As the decision was made, Alid fled into the road nonetheless holding the knife with which he had stabbed Nouri.

A doorbell digital camera caught the second he descended on Mr Carney, who might be heard shouting “no no” as he was stabbed.

Prosecutors on the court docket argued the latter assault was not frenzied however a deliberate try to focus on Mr Carney’s physique.

Alid walked off, leaving his victims for lifeless, the court docket heard and was later apprehended by armed police, who had been additionally seen arresting the attacker.

While in a Middlesborough police holding cell, it was heard he launched into an Arabic speech through which he claimed “Allah willing, Gaza would return to be an Arab country”.

He had strongly disapproved of Mr Nouri’s conversion to Christianity, suggesting that God was “displeased” with followers who went astray,

During a police interview the next day, he admitted to attacking the Hartlepool pensioner as “Israel had killed innocent children”.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC instructed the court docket: “In other words, he said he had committed the attempted murder of Javed Nouri and the murder of Mr Carney in revenge for what he believed to be the killing of children by Israel.”

Mr Sandiford added that he had sworn “by Allah” he “would have killed more victims” if he had a machine gun or different weapons.

Alid had earlier denied costs of homicide, tried homicide and assaulting two feminine cops throughout questioning, claiming he carried out the stabbings with out the intention to kill or trigger severe hurt.

Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb stated she would sentence Alid on Friday, May 17.