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Mosque attacker who set fire to worshippers to be sentenced - BBC News Mosque attacker who set fire to worshippers to be sentenced - BBC News
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In their victim impact statements this morning, Mr Rayaz's family paid tribute to the doctors who treated him at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The attack in Birmingham in March 2023 saw counter-terrorism officers brought in, but there was no evidence Abbkr was motivated by a particular ideology, and so the incidents were not treated as a terrorist attack.
The said he still bore the physical marks of the attack a year ago. They said doctors had said his recovery could take three years in all and even then the scars might remain. In pictures shown to the jury, Abbkr could be seen inside the Dudley Road Mosque in Birmingham in the same room as Mr Rayaz, attending evening prayers.
The defendant, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, had admitted setting fire to both men, but claimed those he attacked were not human and therefore not expected to be hurt by fire.
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