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Man admits murder and mosque blasts | |
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A man has admitted murdering an 82-year-old as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham. | A man has admitted murdering an 82-year-old as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham. |
Mohammed Saleem was stabbed in Green Lane, Small Heath, on 29 April. | |
At the Old Bailey, Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, pleaded guilty to murder, as well as plotting to cause explosions near mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton in June and July. | |
Lapshyn, a postgraduate student from Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, is due to be sentenced on Friday. | |
He was living in Birmingham while on a temporary work placement in the city, and had been in the country less than a week when he killed Mr Saleem. | |
The grandfather of 22 was taken to the city's Heartlands Hospital, but was confirmed dead shortly after arriving. | |
Lapshyn was arrested almost a week after an explosion near the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton on 12 July. |