(BBC) A British man who had been investigated by MI5 threatened to shoot worshippers at a US synagogue as he demanded the release of a Pakistani scientist jailed in the country, an inquest has heard.
Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was shot dead after an 11-hour siege at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Dallas on 15 January 2022.
An inquest at Preston Coroner’s Court heard the 44-year-old had travelled to New York two weeks earlier and then gone to Dallas, where he purchased a black market handgun and talked his way into a synagogue in nearby Colleyville.
Preston coroner James Adeley recorded that Akram had “detained hostages and died after being shot by federal agents.”
