Muslim mother stabbed daughter 40 times and cut out her liver in ritual killing to 'exorcise evil spirits'

A Muslim woman disemboweled her daughter as a sacrifice to God after she became convinced the four-year-old was possessed by spirits, the Old Bailey heard.

Shayma Ali, 36, stabbed the girl up to 40 times and took out her liver while Koranic verses played in the background.

When police arrived at their east London home, Ali was heard chanting: 'I seek refuge in God from the curse of Satan'.

Ali was found covered in blood rocking back and forward in the lounge of her home, with the child's liver on the carpet.

 

She had become obsessed that the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was possessed by a Jinn, a spirit referred to in the Koran which can occupy humans and animals.

In the winter months of last year Ali developed acute transient psychosis, which ended in the killing of the child on December 16.

Duncan Atkinson, prosecuting, said Ali had become an increasingly devout follower of Islam after a trip to Egypt in 2009.

By last year she was prone to 'outbursts of aggression' towards members of her family who became concerned that her mental health was deteriorating.

'She became particularly pre-occupied by the idea of possession by a thing call a Jinn,' said Mr Atkinson.

 

He told the Old Bailey Ali became increasingly obsessed with exorcising the evil spirits.

'She removed the eyes from toys and videos, covering over the eyes on covers of DVDs and books,' he said.

'She also became obsessed with cleaning because she believed such evil spirits thrived in dirty spaces.' He said she 'talked constantly about evil spirits' and the belief that her daughter was possessed.

On December 16 last year she was alone with her daughter, who was not attending nursery because of a recent illness, at her home in east London.

Ali later told a psychiatrist she had been praying when she began to think about sacrificing a child 'as proof of her love of God'.

Mr Atkinson said: 'She became convinced God wanted her to sacrifice her own child.

'She gripped her daughter by the neck until she blacked out. She took her to the kitchen and, as she said, "just to make sure she had killed the Jinn, the evil spirits, properly I took a kitchen knife which had been lying about and stabbed my daughter".' 

Police officers observed Ali repeatedly chanting: 'I seek refuge in God from the curse of Satan.' She was subsequently arrested and later charged with murder.

The court heard she called her husband and was found by family members in the lounge. The child was dead in the kitchen.

The four-year-old had suffered 28 exit wounds to her back, but many of the wounds overlapped each other, leading the pathologist to believe there had been 30 to 40 stab wounds.

She had also suffered blunt impact injuries to her head and compression to her neck.

In January this year Ali spoke to her husband and told him: 'A voice told me "if you really love Allah you would sacrifice your daughter".' 

Psychiatrist Dr Philip Baker said Ali had become ill very quickly and it was 'very difficult for any action to be taken' but when she was psychotic she was capable of extreme violence.

Ali admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Wearing a burka she sobbed in the dock, flanked by three nurses, as she entered her plea.

Judge Anthony Morris QC ordered she be detained in a medium-secure unit for treatment without limit of time under sections 27 and 41 of the Mental Health Act.

'You were suffering from what has been described as an acute and transient psychotic disorder which clearly had been getting significantly worse over a short period of time before you carried out the killing,' he said.

'You became convinced that God wanted you to sacrifice your child and you went on to carry out the most terrible attack upon your four year-old daughter, stabbing her many, many times and then removing her internal organs.' 

He added: 'One of the most horrifying aspects of this case is how quickly you lost control of yourself in that you became, in a very short period of time, somebody who was acting in a way entirely foreign to your normal manner of behaviour.

'The authorities must think long and hard before considering whether it is safe to release you, having regard to the rapidity of the onset of your acute symptoms in this case.'

British Muslims reviving polygamy

A GROWING number of young British Muslims are taking second or third wives in an unexpected revival of polygamy, according to religious leaders.

The new wave of polygamy is revealed in a special report by the BBC Asian Network using findings from the Islamic Sharia Council.

The council, which provides legal advice and guidance to Muslims, said it was receiving an unprecedented number of inquiries about polygamous marriages.

Its most recent figures show that, for the first time, polygamy is now among the top ten reasons cited for divorce, as wives decide that they can no longer tolerate competing with one another.

Polygamy is illegal in Britain, but Muslim men can take a second, third or even a fourth wife under Sharia law in a religious ceremony known as the nikah.

These wives are not recognised by British law, but are considered legitimate within many Muslim communities. Khola Hasan, lecturer and adviser to the Islamic Sharia Council, said it was clear that polygamy among the younger generation was on the increase.

"Out of 700 applications for divorce in 2010, 43 cited polygamy as the reason," she said.

Ms Hasan said her research uncovered three main reasons for the growth in polygamy. The first is the growing number of young Muslim men who want to practise a more orthodox and conservative form of the religion.

"Young men who have come into a more radical understanding of faith know it is illegal to marry more than once [under British law], but do it to spite the system," Ms Hasan said.

"These marriages have the lowest record of succeeding," she said.

The second and biggest group are men whose first marriage has failed.

"Typically their wife does not want a divorce, there are children involved and the father wants to carry on seeing and supporting the children.

Rather than carry on living together and biting each other's heads off, the husband takes a second wife. That is the model which works best, largely because it is a pragmatic arrangement," Ms Hasan said.

That was the case with Imran Patel, a second generation Pakistani living in Birmingham, central England, who has a successful business making desserts. He wanted to marry when he was 18 and settled down with a woman chosen by his parents.

But seven years later he met and fell in love with another woman who was divorced and had two children. Rather than embarking on an extra-marital affair, he decided to marry the second woman as well.

"I didn't tell my first wife about it in the beginning, but she accepted it after a short period of time," he said. "I love both of them. I spend one day and one night with one, then one day and night with the other."

Everyone is happy, he says, apart from his parents, who are appalled.

There is a small third group of men whose parents live in the country of origin, say Pakistan, and need help in old age, so they marry a woman from the community there.

"When he is visiting, she is a wife. When he is back in Britain, she is the carer," Ms Hasan said.
Perminder Khatkar, who carried out the investigation by the BBC, said there was also growing concern that wives in polygamous marriages are unaware that they have no legal rights.

The Muslim Council of Britain has urged all those who marry only under Sharia law to have a contract in place setting out who is entitled to what. However, these contracts require the consent of all parties, and may be challenged in a British court.

Up to 20,000 Muslim polygamous unions robbing welfare system blind

Six charged with terror offences

Four men are charged with preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK, and two more with failing to disclose information, West Midlands Police said.

Allegations include making a martyrdom film and planning a bombing campaign.

Four of the men were charged with preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK, and two with failing to disclose information.

It follows a police operation in Birmingham last week.

The six, all from Birmingham and aged between 25 and 32, will appear at West London Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Irfan Nasser, 30, of Sparkhill, and Irfan Khalid, 26, of Balsall Heath, are accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, including travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism, making a martyrdom video and planning a bombing campaign.

They are accused of "being concerned in constructing" a home-made explosive device for terrorist acts and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

Seventh man

Ashik Ali, 26, of Balsall Heath, is accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, which involved planning a bombing campaign, providing premises for the planning of terrorist attack and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

Rahin Ahmed, 25, of Moseley, is accused of helping fund terrorist acts.

Mohammed Rizwan, 32, of Ward End, and Bahader Ali, 28, of Sparkbrook, are both charged with failing to disclose information about potential acts of terrorism.

It is alleged that between 29 July and 19 September this year, both had information which they knew may help prevent the commission of an act of terrorism but did not disclose the information.

Mr Ali is also charged with providing money for the purposes of terrorism.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between Christmas Day 2010 and 19 September this year.

A seventh man from the city, aged 20, who was arrested on Thursday, continues to be questioned. Officers have until 29 September to charge, release or apply for further time.

The men were arrested as part of an operation carried out by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. The arrests were unarmed, pre-planned and intelligence-led.

'Respected' Religious Teacher Jailed for Fake Wedding...

A RESPECTED religious teacher at a Wakefield mosque is beginning a 12-month prison sentence for his role in his brother’s sham marriage in the city.

Zafar Iqbal, 33, was jailed alongside Czech ‘bride’ Milada Gabcova.

Gabcova, 23, of Marsland Street, Wakefield, was attempting to marry Pakistani student Azhar Ahmed, 22, when a ceremony at the city register office was raided.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Iqbal, of Ashdown Road, Agbrigg, Wakefield, was present at the ceremony and police found £600 on him.

Gabcova was jailed for 15 months. Ahmed, also of Ashdown Road, failed to turn up at court for his sentence.

All three defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration following a trial at Leeds Crown Court in August.

Recorder Singh said he had read “glowing” references about Iqbal including one from the chairman of the mosque where he worked, but the judge said Iqbal had been a willing participant in the conspiracy.

Failed asylum seeker strangled and drowned bakery worker who refused to marry him so he could stay in the UK

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• Tried to strangle her in 2008, holding her neck with both hands and issuing the chilling warning: 'Nobody can help you now'

A failed asylum seeker strangled and drowned a bakery worker who refused to marry him so he could stay in the UK.

Iranian-born Hossein Abdollahzadeh, 32, left Agnieszka Dziegielewska's naked body in a bath full of water at her flat in Swinton, near Rotherham, just weeks after she kicked him out.

He later hanged himself in his prison cell while on remand charged with Dziegielewska's murder, the inquest in Rotherham heard.

Agnieszka moved to the UK from Bialystok, Poland, in 2004 - the year the country became a full member of the EU - and met Abdollahzadeh four years later at his takeaway pizza shop in Swinton. 

Marrying Agnieszka, an EU citizen, would have enabled the Iranian to continue living in the UK.

The inquest heard Agnieszka Dziegielewska had been throttled with a ligature before
having her head pushed under bath water. A chair had also been placed over her body

It emerged at the hearing that Abdollahzadeh treated his partner of two years 'like a servant', regularly slapping and beating her which left her covered in bruises. He also refused to believe their relationship was over when she left him to escape the violence.

Ms Dziegielewska's mother said Abdollahzadeh had previously tried to strangle her daughter in 2008, holding her neck with both hands and issuing the chilling warning: 'Nobody can help you now.'

She added: 'He started treating her like a servant and humiliating her in public.

 On one occasion he slapped her so hard her tooth got loose. Each time he would explain he didn't know why it had happened, and it wouldn't happen again.'

The inquest was told that when he killed her in January last year she had been throttled with a ligature before having her head pushed under the bath water. A chair had also been placed over her body.

Pathologist Dr Peter Vanezis, who examined the body, said she could have been attacked for up to 10 minutes, and that Agnieszka had fought back by 'struggling significantly' before her death.

Detective Superintendent Colin Fisher told the inquest: 'He had failed in his application for political asylum having claimed he had been persecuted as a journalist.

'He could not work or claim benefits yet still set up his own business and was drawing an income.

'His appeals were coming to an end and his last chance of staying in the UK was for him to marry an EU citizen.'

When asked by coroner Nicola Mundy if anyone else was involved in Miss Dziegielewska's death, he replied: 'No ma'am. There is no evidence of any other person being involved.'

Witnesses told the inquest that Abdollahzadeh - who ran an illegal pizza takeaway service - only went out with Miss Dziegielewska because he wanted to marry her so he could stay in the UK.

Det Supt Fisher told the court that her new boyfriend Daniel Sandhall, a shift manager at her bakery, had been completely exonerated of murder and Abdollahzadeh was the only suspect.

Det Supt Fisher said a fingerprint at the flat, CCTV footage and mobile phone records placed Abdollahzadeh at the crime scene.

Further evidence of his record of domestic violence against the victim and property he stole from the flat linked him to the murder.

The Iranian had claimed he spent that night working and then went to a friend's house, and he maintained that alibi in prison.

A note was found by his body in prison. Det Supt Fisher said: 'He didn't admit to the death of Agnieszka but does not seek to blame anybody else.

'He doesn't offer an alternative alibi and the tone of this letter was more about his self-interest.'

Miss Dziegielewska's parents Piotr and Jolanta Mlodzian flew from Poland for the inquest.

Mrs Mlodzian said in a statement read at the inquest that her hard-working daughter had worked at the Maple Leaf Bakery in Swinton since arriving in the UK four years previously.

Miss Dziegielewska and Abdollahzadeh were living together in her Swinton flat by 2008.

But their initial happiness turned sour as her Iranian partner battered and verbally abused the Polish woman from September 2008 onwards.

She was too scared to call in the police. Her mother, who spoke to her daughter every day by phone said: 'She was afraid of the consequences and an escalation of the violence on his side.'

When she finally plucked up the courage to ask her partner to leave he wrote 'I love you' in the snow outside and bought her flowers and a cake with candles for her 30th birthday.

By this time Miss Dziegielewska had begun a relationship with Mr Sandhall. Her parents came over from Poland to help their daughter sort things out with Abdollahzadeh.

Mrs Mlodzian said of him: 'He only cared about himself and nobody else. He considered himself the centre of the world without giving anything back.' 

She told the inquest: 'I thought he only wanted to be here to obtain clearance to stay in the UK.'

The Iranian finally moved out of the flat on January 15 last year and Miss Dziegielewska changed the locks.

On the evening before the Polish woman's death, her mother spoke to her by telephone.

She said: 'She was cheerful and happy that things had started to go well with David. She felt safe and respected with him.'

Saman Aghababaei, a friend of Abdollahzadeh, said in a statement: 'I never once saw him take her out or buy a present for her.

'I told him he was messing her about. I think he was using her to obtain a visa.'

He said she told him she had wasted two years with Abdollahzadeh and wanted the relationship to end.

'She had found someone else she liked and wanted to marry.'

Miss Dziegielewska's Polish friend Agnieszka Blazejewicz told the hearing: 'He began shouting at her and wouldn't let her go anywhere alone. He wanted to know everything she did.

'He was very controlling. She gave him chance to change but nothing changed so she asked him to leave.'

Ms Blazejewicz later received a threatening telephone call from Abdollahzadeh. 

She said: 'He told me if she leaves he will kill her and then me because I don't help him.'

She relayed this to Miss Dziegielewska, who said he had made such threats before.

'He said he would kill her as she could never be with anyone else.'

Mr Sandhall called the police when he got no response to his calls. He last saw Miss Dziegielewska on January 27 last year as they left work.

He said: 'We spoke about each other's feelings and moving in together. We had a kiss and a cuddle and she just drove off.'

Miss Dziegielewska's body was found in her flat the next day. The coroner said it was clear Abdollazadeh had been violent towards his ex-partner and was reluctant to end the relationship.

She had also invited the killer into her home 'whether after some persuasion or a degree of reluctance on her part' as nothing had been disturbed apart from in the bedroom.

Ms Mundy said 'she died at the hand of another' and gave a verdict of unlawful killing.

Free to ride the Tube again: 21/7 terrorist pictured using public transport in London

A  terrorist who helped would-be bombers prepare an attack on London's transport network has been spotted travelling on the capital's buses and tubes.

Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, who helped clean up the bomb factory used by the 21/7 terrorist gang, was seen on a bus and going into Willesden Green Tube station in north west London.

The 35-year-old was jailed for nine years in 2008 but released on bail early. He cannot be deported.

The sight of the Eritrean being able to move freely about the capital he intended to attack will anger all Londoners and in particular all those who lost friends and family in the 7/7 bombings a fortnight earlier.

Terrorist: Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali has been using public transport

The Home Office contested his release and today expressed disappointment with the court's judgement.

Ali is the foster brother of Yassin Omar and close friends with Muktar Said Ibrahim who both orchestrated a failed terrorist attack on the capital on July 21, 2005. All the bombs created by the gang failed to explode.

The failed plot came just two weeks after 52 people travelling on London's buses and tubes were killed by the 7/7 bombers.

Ali was living in the same block of flats in north London as his foster brother at the time of the attack. The terrorists had turned Omar's eighth-floor flat, in Curtis House, New Southgate, into a bomb factory and the group would escape to Ali's home when the fumes created during their bomb-making experiments, became over-whelming. 

As soon as the bombers left Ali started the clean-up operation in Omar's flat. Outside Curtis House police found bins containing 138 empty one litre bottles and 48 empty four litre bottles of hydrogen peroxide.

Officers who raided Ali's flat discovered a notepad detailing measurements of chemicals that would be used in the home-made explosives and a book entitled 'Steps to Martyrdom', as well as bank and national insurance cards belonging the plot's ring-leader Ibrahim, which Ali had tried to destroy.

Ali was jailed in February 2008 for 12 years because he knew of the plot and failed to tell the authorities, but his sentence was later reduced to nine years. He is now living in a bail hostel after serving half of his sentence.

Ali, who is originally from Eritrea, was not deported following his release because judges ruled he could face 'inhumane treatment or punishment,' if he was sent to his homeland. 

The Home Office is appealing against the judgement and a UK Border Agency spokesman said: 'We will do everything we can to remove this individual from the UK and are extremely disappointed by the court's decision to grant bail — a request which we vigorously opposed. 

'In the meantime, we are working closely with public protection agencies to ensure that appropriate monitoring is in place.

British al-Qaeda Given Early Release...

A member of al-Qaeda jailed for ten years in 2008 for his part in a terror plot has been released early from prison.

Habib Ahmed, 32, was convicted after being caught smuggling code books written in invisible ink into the country.

He was part of a British terror cell, headed by Rangzieb Ahmed, that police believe were planning a massacre in Britain. But despite being jailed for ten years in December 2008, he has now been released and is living at a bail hostel in Manchester.

During his trial the court heard how Ahmed downloaded a document called “a study of assassination” and looked up bomb-making techniques.

He also checked on the addresses of former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, military bases and senior policemen.

He was caught when British Customs found notebooks containing names and phone numbers of key al Qaeda figures as he flew from Dubai to hand them to Rangzieb.

Ahmed was arrested in 2006 and so had spent five years in prison including time spent on remand.

A spokesman for the National Offender Management Service said: “Serious offenders on licence are subject to strict conditions and controls.”

A majority of Islamic terrorists in Britain spend less than three-and-a-half years in prison, a new survey has revealed.

Man Torches House with WIfe and Baby Inside...

TRAGIC Melissa Crook died with her baby son cradled in her arms in what detectives ­believe was an arson attack.

Hours later her estranged husband Danai Muhammadi was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife and 15-month-old child Noah at the home of Melissa’s mum and dad.

Her father Mark was last night fighting for his life in hospital with serious burns after being pulled from the inferno at 4.30am by rescuers.

Her mother Amanda also needed treatment for burns and her 21-year-old brother Bohdan broke both his legs as he leapt to safety from an ­upstairs window.

Melissa, 20, is thought to have moved into her parents’ three-bed terrace in Chatham, Kent, earlier this year after quitting her marital home 160 miles away in Coventry.

She is thought to have married Muhammadi in October 2009.

But although she had started using her maiden name again it is unclear whether the couple had divorced.

Muhammadi, 23, and another man were arrested in Coventry at 2.30pm yesterday – 10 hours after the fatal blaze was started.

Melissa and her 49-year-old dad were thought to be trapped in a front bedroom with Noah when the ceiling caved in on them. And last night neighbours told of their horror as they saw fire and choking smoke engulf the two-storey house.

Wedding: Danai & Mel in 2009, but Mel moved out earlier this year with son

Nicola Barrett, a 46-year-old mum of two, said: “I was in bed when I heard shouting.

“I looked out and saw flames in the bedroom, which was gutted.

“Firemen were trying to get on top of it – it seemed to go on for ages.”

Another neighbour added: “It’s ­absolutely shocking. That poor family have been left devastated.”

Friends told of their heartache in tributes on a local website.

One wrote: “RIP Mel & Noah. So sad – can’t get my head around it. Your dad would’ve done everything he could to save you both. You’ll be sadly missed xxx”

Another said: “I’m sorry to hear this sad news for a great family and friends. Thinking of u all.”

Bohdan was last night at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, a short drive from his home.

But Amanda, 39, and Mark were both being treated in a specialist burns unit at East Grinstead Hospital in West Sussex.

As investigators with sniffer dogs began scouring the charred wreckage in the house yesterday, Kent Fire and Rescue Service boss Andy Merriman said: “Our crews were confronted by an extreme fire.

“They managed to fight their way into the house and prevent further spread to adjoining properties – but tragically two people have died.”

And Chief Supt Neil Jerome of Kent Police told a news conference: “Our hearts go out to the family and friends of those involved.”

A spokesman for the force later issued a statement saying: “Police investigating a suspicious fire in Medway in which two people died have arrested two men.

“The men were arrested on suspicion of murder at around 2.30pm this afternoon and they are currently in police custody.”

Sources confirmed one of the men was Danai Muhammadi.

) Illegal Immigrant Knifes Man Trying to Protect His Girl...

BRAVE Chris Green chased and helped capture an illegal immigrant who had repeatedly slashed him with a knife as he protected his pregnant girlfriend.

Mr Green, 25, pursued "dangerous" Namo Salah across Derby city centre, which was busy with shoppers, in a T-shirt soaked in blood from his knife wounds.

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   Laura Davey with her boyfriend Chris Green, who still suffers nightmares after being attacked.

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He eventually trapped Iraqi Salah in a building in Iron Gate – with the help of his partner Laura Davey, who had joined in the chase.

Salah had barged into Ms Davey as she and Mr Green walked home along Macklin Street at about 2.30pm.

Mr Green thought Salah was going to punch Ms Davey and pushed him away, at which point the 33-year-old launched a vicious attack – repeatedly slashing him with the knife, Derby Crown Court heard. When Mr Green caught up with Salah in the Market Place he was bitten on the elbow.

Salah was in the country illegally and on the run after fleeing a trial for other offences of violence.

Mr Green, of Sinfin, sobbed in court as Salah was jailed.

The victim, who still carries the scars of the attack, said: "It brings it all back, seeing him in the dock.

"I thought he was going to kill me that day. But I thought if I let him get away he'll do it to someone else so I thought 'I'll have to stop him'.

"I just kept running. If I had stopped, I probably would have collapsed."

Judge John Wait said Mr Green was "a very brave man" to be so protective of his partner. He awarded him £250 from public funds. Investigating officer Det Con Steve Fuller called him a hero and said: "Not many people would do what he did."

Prosecutor Vee Monro said that when Mr Green stepped in Salah had pulled a Stanley knife from a trouser pocket.

She said Salah grabbed hold of Mr Green and there was a struggle but then Salah slashed him with the knife "over and over again".

Miss Monro said: "Mr Green was hitting out at Salah – trying to protect himself. He said he was scared for his life."

Salah then ran off down Becket Street, where Mr Green caught up with him and was stabbed again, said Miss Monro.

The court heard that two youngsters then helped Mr Green, lending him a bike to continue the chase.

He next caught up with Salah near the fountain in the Market Place and grabbed hold of him but had to release his grip when Salah bit him on the elbow.

Salah then went into a building in Iron Gate, but could not get through a locked door at the other end of the foyer. Miss Davey held the foyer's outer door shut until the police arrived.

Miss Davey, who is now seven months pregnant and was also in court, said she started to run after Salah as well.

The 27-year-old, of Derby, said: "There was no way I was going to let him get away after I had seen what he had done to Chris."

After Salah was arrested, police found he was on the run from court in Worcester for an assault where he had bitten off part of a man's ear.

Mr Green was taken to hospital where he received treatment for two knife wounds to his chest and one to his ear.

The court was told that since the attack on Thursday, May 12, Mr Green had suffered nightmares, was scared to go into town alone and had moved from his city centre flat.

Mr Green had been doing agency work at Bright Cross Insulation, in Shaftesbury Street, at the time of the attack but lost the job after he took time off to recover.

Salah, of no fixed address, admitted wounding and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

Judge Wait said after his time in custody he would either be released on licence or be deported.

Nicholas Berry, for Salah, said: "It was an outrageous course of conduct by him but fortunately the injuries were not as serious as they could have been."

Salah had failed to turn up for the second day of a trial in February at Worcester Crown Court for wounding and assault, but was sentenced for those crimes on August 3.

He assaulted a man in Worcestershire in September 2008 and then attacked him again in April 2009, biting a chunk out of his ear.

A spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said: "At the time there was no suggestion that Namo Salah was an illegal immigrant."

At Derby, Salah was jailed for 18 months, which will begin after he has served the two-and-a-half year sentence he was given at Worcester.

East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer said Salah should be deported at the end of his sentence. He added: "It's scandalous a large amount of people, who are here illegally and serve prison sentences, are not deported."

He said this either happened through a mistake by the prison system or because lawyers fought for them to stay under European human rights legislation.

Jihadist hate preacher Anjem Choudary says singer Cheryl Cole a prime jihadist target for visiting British troops in Afghanistan

FORCES' sweetheart Cheryl Cole has been warned she is a “prime target” to be killed by al-Qaida after visiting british troops in Afghanistan.

UK-based radicals said Cheryl Cole could now be legitimately targeted by “Jihadis” fighting a worldwide holy war against the West and had “put her life at risk”.

The 28-year-old Geordie singer’s team was last night said to be probing the threats in a bid to keep her safe.

Cheryl donned army fatigues during a visit to troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand province last week, which marked ten years of war against the Taliban.

Speaking during the tour, she said: “I always had admiration for what the guys do out here but seeing them here at work is fantastic

“I’m delighted to be here to recognise all the hard work they do. Every one of them is a hero in my book.”

But yesterday the terror sympathisers said such acts now made her an “enemy of Islam”.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star Sunday, inflammatory cleric Anjem Choudary warned: “I find it completely outrageous that Cheryl Cole can go to Afghanistan and start praising the soldiers when thousands of innocent men, women and children are being slaughtered by the Americans and their allies.

“A large percentage of the population has been murdered. Far from going over there and supporting the war effort she should be condemning what is taking place in Afghanistan.

“The fact that she is prepared to support this war in Afghanistan I think shows the naivety of the woman.

“She has put herself in great danger by being such a high-profile visitor to the region.

“The more she is seen as the sweetheart of the forces and the more she is involved in Afghanistan, the more she will create enemies among the Muslims.

“She will only have herself to blame for the repercussions on her own security.

“Obviously as Muslims living here in Britain we have a covenant of security with regard to the life and sanctity of everyone.But not everyone abides by that as we have seen with 7/7 and as we see almost on a daily basis around the world.

“It is incredibly foolish of her to go to Afghanistan in relation to her public profile.”

Meanwhile, Choudary’s sidekick Abu Saalihah added his weight to the warnings.

He told us: “Cheryl Cole is a legitimate target.”

And in a statement on their website last night, Islamist group Muslims Against Crusades – who have close links to Choudary – issued a further warning to the singer.

It read: “Cheryl Cole has made the disastrous decision to go to Afghanistan in a bid to support and boost the morale of British soldiers presently fighting Muslims in Afghanistan.

“In a bid to improve her own public image, she has put her security and life at risk, Muslims will view this as an action of aggression against Islam and Muslims.

“Oh Cheryl, you were used by Ashley Cole, you were used by Simon Cowell, don’t be used by the tabloid press and British government for a war that has nothing to do with you.”

A spokesman for Cheryl last night declined to comment on the scare.

Someone would have to be keeping up on filthy infidel pop culture to write that, eh, "Andy" Choudary?