Hamas terror suspect guilty of wounding bailiff over wife’s unpaid parking fines

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Germany-born Mohammed Alfatih, also known as Mohammed Naim, is reported to have acted as a bodyguard to the leader of Hamas.

A suspected Hamas terrorist wanted over an alleged plot to murder members of the Jewish community in Germany has been found guilty of a violent knife attack on a bailiff outside his UK home.

Germany-born Mohammed Alfatih, also known as Mohammed Naim, is reported to have acted as a bodyguard to the leader of Hamas before being granted asylum in Britain in 2015 and British citizenship in 2020.

Jurors who convicted Alfatih after being shown film footage of the 40-year-old brandishing two large kitchen knives outside his home in Kings Heath, Birmingham, were not told of his alleged links to Hamas.

They were also not told Alfatih, reported to be the son of a senior Hamas official, was under surveillance by a counter-terrorism unit after being released on bail on suspicion of a terror offence days before the bailiff was attacked.

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Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for more than six hours over three days before convicting Alfatih of wounding.

He was cleared of wounding with intent, but also convicted of two counts of unlawful possession of a knife.

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