At 82, he was using a walking stick.
Suddenly, Pavlo Lapshyn, a 25-year-old Ukrainian PhD student, stabbed the elderly man three times in the back with a hunting knife, killing him.
The wound that was highest up on passed all the way through his body.
In June and July, Lapshyn, a white supremacist who wanted, in his words, to “increase racial conflict”, planted bombs outside three mosques in the West Midlands region, targeting the busiest periods – Friday congregations.
He was later arrested and pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him under the Explosive Substances Act of 1883 and the Terrorism Act of 2006. He is now serving at least 40 years in a UK prison.
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ACCIDENT: Shukri Abdi THE family of a young girl, who drowned in the River Irwell in Bury while out playing with friends, have confirmed they are suing Greater Manchester Police, claiming institutional racism. 12-year-old Shukri Abdi died in June 2019 after the girl she was swimming with, referred to as Child One, lost contact with her. A coroner at Rochdale Coroner’s Court ruled that the other child knew that she could not swim and took her into deep water, and that a duty of care existed which was breached. But Joanne Kearsley, senior coroner for Manchester North, concluded that there was no evidence that Child One had any intention to kill Shukri.