Pavlo Lapshyn Jailed For Minimum Of 40 Years

A Ukrainian white supremicist who murdered a grandfather and bombed three Midland mosques has been sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail.

Student Pavlo Lapshyn has been told that he would not be eligible for release for four decades despite his guilty plea because of the 'abhorrence' of his crimes.

The Ukrainian began his racist campaign just five days after arriving in the UK in April this year when he stabbed to death 82-year-old grandfather Mohammed Saleem in Small Heath, Birmingham.

He then went on to launch three attacks on mosques in the Black Country, bringing terror to Muslim communities across the west Midlands.

Before sentencing him at the Old Bailey, judge Mr Justice Sweeney told Lapshyn he clearly held white supremicist views and racial hatred.

The judge said: "You were motivated to commit the offences by religious and racial hatred.

"You were clearly planning to plant and detonate more devices in the hope that you would ignite racial conflict and cause muslims to leave the area where you were living.

"Such views, hatred and motivation are abhorrent to all right thinking people and have no place whatsoever in our multi-faith and multi-cultural society."

Granddad Mohammed Saleem, who was murdered by racist Pavlo Lapshyn

Lapshyn had won a work placement contest and was employed at a software firm in Birmingham but he used the months after his arrival to orchestrate a hate campaign.

Lapshyn put together a home-made bomb that he hid in a child's lunchbox and left it outside Walsall's Aisha Mosque on June 21.

Seven days later he detonated a device close to Wolverhampton Central Mosque.

On July 12 he used a deadly nail bomb next to the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton, near Wolverhampton.

Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards, from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "We found part-made devices in Lapshyn's room – plus chemicals and bomb-making equipment – so it is clear he planned to place further devices with the intention of killing or maiming innocent members of the public.

"All three of the devices he detonated were powerful but his final attack in Tipton was the first to feature shrapnel and nails.

"He placed this near the mosque's car-park with the intention of hitting worshippers as they arrived for prayers – thankfully the service had been put back an hour so the mosque was largely deserted when the bomb went off."

Lapshyn was caught after CCTV pictures of him were put in the media and recognised by a member of the public.

When he was interviewed by police Lapshyn said he was acting alone and was not part of any wider group.

During the sentencing, Lapshyn showed no emotion, even while the judge read out a harrowing victim impact statement from Mr Saleem's family.

The hearing was extended by half an hour after a suspicious package was discovered in the courtroom where Lapshyn was due to be sentenced.

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