Parviz Khan, 37 who was under arrest in the charges of plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier has accepted the imposed charges before the trial court in Leicester crown court on Tuesday.
According to confirmed reports, Parviz Khan yesterday admits that he was the key person behind to sketch the terror plot of kidnapping and slaughtering the unnamed Muslim soldier to spread fear and panic in the army and in the public worldwide.
He has also confessed that he had released the footage of killing on the internet to spread fear factor among the public, as claimed prosecution.
According to Nigel Rumfitt, who is the Queen’s counsel and prosecuting this case, said before the trial court, as per the plan, “the accused would have carry the soldier to a lock-up garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig”.
However, three other accused Basiru Gasama (30), Mohammed Irfan (31), and Hamid Elasmar (44) admitted lesser offences with the plot while other two Amjad Mahmood (32) and Zahoor Iqbal (30) denied to have any relationship with this plot. The case against all of them is still under trial.
Rumfitt yesterday informed the tribunal that Parviz’s alleged crime was to discourage the global Muslims to join the British or other Western army as he (Parviz) admitted it. “It is the most violent act and extreme views of a fanatic.” Rumfitt said. “This atrocity would be filmed and the film released to cause panic and fear within the British armed forces and the wider public,” he added.
“He was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British Army, some of them Muslims from The Gambia in West Africa”, he further said.
British Army had run a long recruiting campaign in Asian Newspapers to attract the ethnic minorities and Parveiz’s aim to discourage Muslim community to join the army through alleged slaughtering and circulating the footage of ‘heinous’ killing.
The trend of this sort of slaughtering and recording its footage begins with the American Journalist Daniel Pearl beheaded in Karachi in 2002. Since then it has become the common tool of spreading ‘panic’ in Iraq.
“This crime has been performed likely with the help of drug dealers,” Nigel said before the court.
The gang-leader Parviz was arrested in February last year during a series of counter-terrorism raids. He was an unemployed charity worker, from Alum Rock, Birmingham, and likely to have linked with Pakistan.
Besides him one among the other captive might have linked to Pakistan as prosecution report said.
All the six member of this case are facing the common charges of weaving a conspiracy to kidnapping and murdering of an unnamed Muslim soldier of Birmingham based British Armed Forces between April 2006 and February 2007.
Court had ordered to media not to disclose the detail of this case before the beginning of the trial earlier.
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