Life sentence for Islamic extremist who murdered an elderly man in England “in revenge for Gaza”

An Islamic extremist of Moroccan nationality, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, who murdered a pensioner on the streets of this country “inspired” by the conflict between Israel and Hamas has been imprisoned for life, according to a court ruling released this Friday .The murderer, Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, six times on October 15 in the city of Hartlepool (England), just eight days after the terrorist group Hamas carried out an attack against Israel in which killed at least 1.200 people.According to the verdict released by the Teeside Court (England), which applies the sentence to the aggressor, Alid was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his roommate, Javed Nouri, whom he attacked before killing Carney.During the judicial process, Alid, who communicated through an Arabic interpreter, He admitted having stabbed the two men but denied that his intention had been to kill them or cause them serious harm.Minutes before committing the fatal attack against the elderly man, the aggressor had tried to kill his housemate, Javed Nouri, a converted Christian, breaking into his bedroom while he was asleep. During that assassination attempt, the attacker shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great) before fleeing into the street, armed with a knife.Surveillance cameras installed in nearby homes showed how the attacker proceeded to stab Carney, who was taking a walk through the city center.Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb found that Alid had committed terrorism offenses by murdering the pensioner and attempting to kill Nouri.«The murder of Terence Carney was a terrorist act with which he hoped to influence the British Government. “He hoped to scare the British and undermine the freedoms they enjoy,” the judge said.Cheema-Grubb noted that Alid had waited until his roommate was “asleep and vulnerable” to attack him and that “the life he had begun to build in this country fell apart as a result of what happened.”After this murder attempt, the aggressor “attacked an unarmed elderly man unable to defend himself,” the judge added.Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.