A Lancashire man shot dead after taking four people hostage at a synagogue in the US was banned from a court building in his home town for making threats to staff about the September 11 terror attacks, it emerged today.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, was said to have told an usher at the town's magistrates' court: "You should have been on the f***ing plane."
He held four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, US, on Sunday (January 16).
