(Sky News) Footage has been shown to a jury of the moment armed police arrived at a hostel before a Moroccan asylum seeker stabbed a pensioner in the street “for Gaza.”
Ahmed Ali Alid, 45, allegedly attempted to kill his housemate, Javed Nouri, because he had converted to Christianity and believed he was an apostate — someone who has abandoned their religion.
Teesside Crown Court heard he then went out onto the streets of Hartlepool, where he encountered Terence Carney, 70, who was out for a morning walk, attacking him and stabbing him to death.
Alid told police the attack, on 15 October last year, a week after the Hamas attacks on Israel, was “because of the conflict in Gaza” and to remove “Zionists” from Palestine.
