It was supposed to be a day of solemn reflection. Members of Manchester’s Jewish community, young and old, had gathered to mark Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
But a day of fasting and prayer was shattered when a knifeman ploughed into a worshipper outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall on Thursday morning, before getting out and stabbing bystanders.
