We just KNEW this was a Muslim arson. But we couldn’t report on it when the story broke because names had not been released. But here they are.
Muslims and blacks don’t get along too well in Britain and there are a lot of clashes between the old slave traders and the blacks.
But we beg to question: would you want brain surgery by this Talibani ‘consultant neurosurgeon’ Dr Muhammed Taufiq Sattar?? He’ll probably recite the death dua, the death prayer, before embarking on his expertise.
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Arson gang who killed neurosurgeon’s wife and three children were bent on avenging fatal stabbing of their friend – but set fire to the WRONG house, murder trial told
- Family died after petrol was poured through the front door of their home
- Prosecutors claim that accused targeted the wrong house by mistake
- The Taufiq family could not escape as fire blocked the only escape route
- Gang was seeking a youth lived two doors away from the Taufiq.
- Prosecutors claim the gang wanted revenge over an earlier fatal stabbing
An innocent family died when their home was set on fire in a bungled revenge attack that targeted the wrong address, a court heard.
Shehnila Taufiq, 47, her daughter, Zainab, 19, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamil, 15, perished after a ‘ferocious’ blaze engulfed their Leicester home in the early hours of the morning, a jury was told.
Mrs Taufiq’s husband, consultant neurosurgeon Dr Muhammed Taufiq Sattar, survived because he was working in Dublin at the time of the tragedy.
Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar arriving at Nottingham Crown Court on the first day of the trial of eight defendants who are charged with murdering his wife and three children at their Leicester home on September 13, 2013
Jamal Tauriq, left and his brother Bilal both died in the blaze, along with their mother Shehnila and sister Zainab. Seven men and a youth are accused of deliberately starting the inferno in Spinney Hills, Leicester. They all deny four counts of murder.
Nottingham Crown Court was told the intended target of the arson attack was teenager Abdul Hakim, whose mother lived just two doors away from the Taufiq family.
Seven hours earlier Hakim, 19, had been involved in a confrontation with football coach Antoin Akpom, a friend and associate of the accused, in which Mr Akpom was stabbed to death. The incident took place in Sussex Street, Leicester, less than a mile from the scene of the fire.
Archive: The fire that killed an innocent family
Prosecutors claim the gang wished to avenge the death of Antoin Akpom, pictured, who was stabbed in Leicester earlier the same night as the fire.
Prosecutors allege that the eight accused wanted to target the house of Abdul Hakim, who lived two doors away from the Taufiq family.
Richard Latham prosecuting said as the eight defendants stuck, the family was asleep upstairs in their home, pictured.
Richard Latham QC, prosecuting, said the eight defendants struck at the mid-terraced home where Mrs Taufiq and her children were sleeping, believing it was linked to Hakim, who was known by his nickname of ‘AP’.
But Mr Latham added: ‘They simply got the wrong house. A tragedy.’
The court heard one senior fire officer described the resulting blaze, which was started by petrol being poured through the letterbox then set alight, as the ‘worst he had ever attended’.
Another said it was ‘ferocious’, adding: ‘The heat vented out was amazing.’
Mr Latham told the jury that despite the efforts of neighbours and fire crews, ‘nothing could be done’ to save the family after the fire was started at around 12.30am on September 13 last year.
The court heard that Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar had spoken to his wife and children on the phone an hour before the fatal attack.
He said: ‘The primary means of escape was unavailable because the fire was at the bottom of the staircase. They were trapped upstairs.
‘They had nothing to do with the events in Sussex Street, nothing to do with AP, whose mother simply happened to be a nearby neighbour.
‘Those responsible, we say, are the eight defendants in the dock, who it alleged were all immediately outside when the fire was set.
‘The prosecution case is this fire was set as part of the retribution process for the stabbing.’
Dr Sattar, who Mr Latham said had spoken to his wife and children on the phone just over an hour before the blaze started, listened from the public gallery as the prosecutor outlined the case to the jury.
He said the death of Mr Akpom, 20, was the ‘background’ to the fire, which he described as a ‘horrendous act’.
The court heard he was stabbed once in the back during an incident involving Hakim and another 19-year-old, Hussein Hussein, outside a gym. Hussein, a Somali refugee from London, was convicted of Mr Akpom’s murder and jailed for life earlier this month.
The court heard that Shehnila Taufiq, her daughter Zainab, and sons Bilal, and Jamal died in the blaze at the family’s home in Wood Hill, Leicester, pictured.
Mr Latham told the court it quickly became ‘common knowledge’ Hakim had been involved in the incident that resulted in the death of Mr Akpom, and that the defendants soon ‘involved themselves in an evolving plan that resulted in all eight being at Wood Hill in the moments before the fire’.
He added they travelled to the scene in two cars, one of which had to be abandoned after the blaze was started because it was accidentally blocked in by another vehicle, and that there was evidence all eight had stopped using their mobile phones in the build-up to the fire.
Mr Latham told the jury that the eight defendants had ‘acted in concert’.
He said: ‘All the defendants were there and willing and able to give support to the enterprise.’
Mr Latham added that by the time Mrs Taufiq’s home was set alight, Hakim had already left Leicester and was in London.
The accused are 19-year-olds Kemo Porter and Nathaniel Mullings, Aaron Webb and Jackson Powell, both 20, Akeem Jeffers, 21, Tristan Richards, 22, Shaun Carter, 24, and a 17-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons. The men all come from Leicester apart from Jeffers, who is from Leeds.
All of the defendants deny all of the charges.
The trial, which is expected to last up to eight weeks, continues.
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