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Detectives investigating the murder of a respected imam in Rochdale have charged a man with helping his killer flee the country. Detectives investigating the murder of a respected imam in Rochdale have charged a man for helping his killer flee the country.
Mohammed Syadul Hussain, 24, has been charged with assisting an offender over the murder of Jalal Uddin, police said. Mohammed Syadul Hussain, 24, has been charged with assisting an offender over the murder of Jalal Uddin, police said. He is accused of helping Mohammed Kadir – described by a judge as Uddin’s killer – leave the country for Turkey three days after the murder on 18 February.
He is accused of helping Mohammed Kadir – described by a judge as Uddin’s killer – leave the country for Turkey three days after the murder on 18 February. Hussain, from Rochdale, had been remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court, Greater Manchester police said. The fresh charge comes 10 days after Mohammed Syeedy, 21, was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for his part in Uddin’s murder.
Hussain, from Rochdale, had been remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court, Greater Manchester police said. Kadir and Syeedy killed 71-year-old Uddin because he practiced a form of Islamic healing considered to be “black magic” by some extremists, the trial heard. Syeedy and his friends surveilled Uddin for 18 months before Kadir bludgeoned him to death with a hammer in a children’s playground as he walked home from his mosque at night.
The fresh charge comes 10 days after Mohammed Syeedy, 21, was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for his part in Uddin’s murder. Counter-terrorism police are hunting for Kadir but fear he may have slipped across the Turkish border and joined Islamic State in Syria. The trial heard how the 24-year-old, from Oldham, “drained his bank account” and flew to Istanbul via Copenhagen three days after the killing.
Kadir and Syeedy killed 71-year-old Uddin because he practiced a form of Islamic healing considered to be “black magic” by some extremists, the trial at Manchester crown court heard. The judge, Sir David Maddison, said he did not believe the intention was to kill Uddin, but to “cause extremely grave and permanently disabling harm” so that he would be unable to practise Islamic healing.
The trial heard how Syeedy and his friends surveilled Uddin for 18 months before Kadir bludgeoned him to death with a hammer in a children’s playground as he walked home from his mosque at night. Syeedy played an “absolutely integral” part in the murder, the judge said, describing the killing as a “carefully planned, premeditated” attack on a vulnerable victim.
Counter-terrorism police are hunting for Kadir but fear that he may have slipped across the Turkish border and joined Islamic State fighters in Syria.
The trial heard how the 24-year-old, from Oldham, “drained his bank account” and flew to Istanbul via Copenhagen three days after the killing.
The judge, Sir David Maddison, said he did not believe the intention was to kill Uddin, but to “cause extremely grave and permanently disabling harm” so that he was unable to practise Islamic healing ever again.
Syeedy played an “absolutely integral” part in the murder, the judge said, describing the killing as a “carefully planned”, “premeditated” attack on a vulnerable victim.
The judge refused to refer to Kadir by name throughout his sentencing, referring to him only as “the killer”.The judge refused to refer to Kadir by name throughout his sentencing, referring to him only as “the killer”.
Describing Uddin as “gentle, well-respected”, the judge said the “brutal” killing was a hate crime but did not match the sentencing threshold of a religiously motivated murder, which carries a minimum term of 30 years’ imprisonment. Describing Uddin as “gentle” and “well-respected”, the judge said the “brutal” killing was a hate crime but did not match the sentencing threshold of a religiously motivated murder, which carries a minimum term of 30 years’ imprisonment.
“It seems to me that this was a case of two members of the Muslim faith killing another member of the Muslim faith solely because they disapproved of a particular practice carried out by that person,” Maddison said.“It seems to me that this was a case of two members of the Muslim faith killing another member of the Muslim faith solely because they disapproved of a particular practice carried out by that person,” Maddison said.