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Barney Davis

Malik Faisal Akram: ‘Terrorist’ shot dead in synagogue had been banned from Blackburn court for 9/11 rant

Questions have emerged as to how a Briton who took hostages at a Texas synagogue before being shot dead by police got a US visa after being banned from a UK court for bizarre 9/11 rants at staff.

Malik Faisal Akram had entered the Blackburn Magistrates building the day after 9/11 raving to an usher he “wished he would have died” on one of the New York planes which collided with the Twin Towers, killing 2,996 people.

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