Posted on 08/02/2010 8:39:21 PM PDT by Stoat
Four men were convicted today of murdering an innocent couple by firebombing the wrong house in a botched 'honour' killing.
Abdullah Mohamed, 41, and his wife Ayesha, 39, were at home in bed when petrol was poured through the letterbox of their home in Blackburn, Lancashire, and set on fire.
But the gang recruited to carry out the attack were supposed to target the house of a man 20 doors away who was having a secret affair with another man's married sister.
Two of their three children, a girl aged 14 and a boy aged nine, were also trapped in the house but survived.
The arson attack had been arranged by London Underground systems operator Hisamuddin Ibrahim, 21, after he discovered his married sister was having an affair.
Ibrahim had asked his best friend Habib Iqbal and two other men, Mohammed Miah and Sadek Miah (no relation), to drive up from London overnight to carry out the attack on the home of her lover.
Ibrahim, 21, of Shelley Avenue, London, Habid Iqbal, 25, of Strone Road, London, and Mohammed Miah, 19, of Pelley Road, London, and Sadek Miah, 23, of Byng Street, Isle of Dogs, London, all denied murder, but Sadek Miah pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
It took a jury just 90 minutes today to convict all four defendants of murder following a six-week trial at Preston Crown Court. They are due to be sentenced tomorrow.
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Hisamuddin Ibrahim, above left, Habib Iqbal, Mohammed Miah, below left, and Sadek Miah who were convicted of the bungled honour killing
Mr Mohammed was killed in the blaze in October last year and his wife died a week later from her injuries.
Abdullah Mohammed who died with his wife in the firebomb attack on their house
Did the perps wear.. Muslin?
Bad jihadis, wrong house!
That’s right England, KEEP ON IMPORTING TROUBLE!!!
Excuse me if I don’t get too surprised or choked up that savages are behaving like savages.
Well, at least their hearts were in the right place. Every thing would have been just fine if they'd hit the right targets./s
D’oh!
Outsourcing your honour killing seems rather... dishonourable.
Sadly, we're 'importing' them too and something like this could easily happen here in the USA as well.
I gotta’ say, these boys are f’ugly.
No doubt.
Hopefully their appearances won't deter other inmates from providing them with decades of highly personal and intimate attention.
That’s not “honor killing”, that’s a mafia hit!
Proof that if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing yourself.
I’ve heard of the neighborhood Mr. Miah lives in. Gotta love that. How’d you like to be a Moslem and live on the Isle of Dogs?
Did you note that there wasn’t a word in the article condemning the concept of honour killings?
I would suggest that one notable difference for us here in the USA would be that in a similar circumstance, our ‘press’ would most likely cover up not only the ‘honor killing’ motive but their names and the religion involved as well. I do respect some parts of the UK media for that...on many occasions I’ve been able to discover ‘politically incorrect’ stuff about a wide variety of news items that have been covered up or omitted by the American ‘media’ when they’ve reported on the same story.
Every time Bambi “reaches out” he hands them another stone.
You are completely right. How do I say this without giving my situation away? Men who think they own women are a threat everywhere.
Cheers!
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