A court heard that Ahmed Alid told detectives that he wanted "Palestine to be free from the Zionists" and that he had killed "because Israel was killing children". In interviews, he said that if he had had a machine gun or more weapons, he would have killed more people.
Yesterday a jury found Alid guilty of murdering Terence Carney, 70, on a street in Hartlepool in October 2023. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of one of his housemates, Javed Nouri, 32, who Alid had repeatedly stabbed after barging into his bedroom.
Nouri had converted from Islam to Christianity and Alid regarded him as an apostate, prosecutors had told the court.
During his trial, at Teesside crown court in Middlesbrough, Alid admitted stabbing the men but claimed that he had not intended to kill either of them and that he had "lost his mind" after a buildup of stress.
The jury found Alid guilty of murder, attempted murder and two charges of assaulting police officers.
This story is from the April 26, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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