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| Regent's Park stabbing: Killer who hid in mosque found guilty | Regent's Park stabbing: Killer who hid in mosque found guilty |
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| A 22-year-old who stabbed a man, then hid in a London mosque which was stormed by police, has been found guilty of manslaughter. | A 22-year-old who stabbed a man, then hid in a London mosque which was stormed by police, has been found guilty of manslaughter. |
| Kamal Hussain, of no fixed abode, fled to London Central Mosque after killing 25-year-old Zahir Visiter on 28 March. | Kamal Hussain, of no fixed abode, fled to London Central Mosque after killing 25-year-old Zahir Visiter on 28 March. |
| He was questioned by police while there but released as he had changed clothes. | He was questioned by police while there but released as he had changed clothes. |
| An Old Bailey jury found him guilty of manslaughter but acquitted him of murder. Yosef Ahmed, 18, of Lorne Close was cleared of murder and manslaughter. | An Old Bailey jury found him guilty of manslaughter but acquitted him of murder. Yosef Ahmed, 18, of Lorne Close was cleared of murder and manslaughter. |
| Mr Visiter died in hospital about an hour after he was found fatally stabbed in Cunningham Place, Maida Vale, at 18:15 GMT. | |
| The jury heard he had left his home in nearby Hucknall Court with £280 to give to an unnamed person. | |
| After descriptions of the suspects were circulated, two plain-clothes officers chased two men along a towpath. | |
| PC Thomas Wharburton said he then lost sight of the pair but learned over the radio that they had run into the mosque in Regent's Park. | |
| The officer told jurors he came across two men at the mosque who were both wearing T-shirts and jogging bottoms which were rolled up "to appear like shorts". | |
| When asked by prosecutor James Mulholland QC whether they were not detained as "neither matched the appearance of the individuals you were seeking", PC Warburton replied: "That's correct." | |
| The officer said when he saw the clothing which had been discarded he was "certain" it was the same as that worn by the men who he chased. | |
| Jurors have been told the two suspects discarded hoodies and other distinctive items they knew would identify them. |