Extremist asylum seeker jailed for life after stabbing pensioner to death | UK News [Video]

An asylum seeker who murdered a pensioner in the street in ‘revenge’ for the Israel-Hamas conflict has been jailed for life.

Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, six times in Hartlepool town centre on October 15 eight days after Hamas attacked Israel.

Minutes earlier the Moroccan national attempted to murder his housemate Javed Nouri while he slept because he converted to Christianity.

Alid broke into Mr Nouri’s bedroom and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack at theasylum seekers’ accommodation before fleeing into the street.

Doorbell camera footage showed Mr Carney, who was out walking in the town centre, cry out ‘No, no’ as he was stabbed by the stranger.

Prosecutors at Teesside Crown Court said it was not a frenzied attack but a deliberate attempt to target Mr Carney’s body repeatedly before he walked off, leaving his victim for dead.

In a holding cell at Middlesbrough police station after his arrest, Alid launched into a speech in Arabic …