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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Man convicted of murdering stranger in Hartlepool and trying to kill housemate

Ahmed Alid.
A jury on Thursday found Ahmed Alid guilty of murder, attempted murder and two charges of assaulting police officers. Photograph: Counter Terror Police/PA

A 45-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a complete stranger, telling police he wanted to kill people because of the conflict in Gaza.

A court heard that Ahmed Alid told detectives that he wanted “Palestine to be free from the Zionists” and that he had killed “because Israel was killing children”. In interviews, he said that if he had had a machine gun or more weapons, he would have killed more people.

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