‘Serious blunder’ led to missed chances to stop Rochdale imam’s murder, inquiry finds Mohammed Kadir, who murdered Jalal Uddin in 2016, was known to counter-terrorism police and had been identified as a person of high risk and significant concern. But action was not taken to investigate him.

(Sky News) A “serious blunder” by officials meant they failed to disrupt a murder plot against an imam by Islamic State (IS) extremists, an inquiry has found.

Father-of-seven Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Rochdale in February 2016 by Mohammed Kadir, who believed the imam was involved in a form of “black magic.”

Kadir, then 24 and a former call-centre worker from Oldham, fled to Syria, but his getaway driver, former Manchester United steward Mohammed Syeedy, 21 at the time and from Rochdale, was jailed for life in 2016.

A third man, Mohammed Syadul Hussain, 21 and also from Rochdale, was jailed in 2017 for five years for helping Kadir leave the UK.

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