A person has been discovered responsible of trying to homicide two aged worshippers by setting them alight after they left mosques in London and Birmingham.

Mohammed Abbkr, 29, prayed with the congregation earlier than ready for victims Hashi Odowa, 82, and Mohammed Rayaz, 70, outdoors.

He adopted each males earlier than spraying them with petrol from a water bottle and utilizing a lighter to set them on hearth.

Birmingham Crown Court heard Abbkr set hearth to Mr Odowa on 27 February as he made his option to a neighbour's automobile outdoors West Ealing Islamic Centre, in west London.

Mr Odowa escaped critical damage as he was capable of take away his burning jacket and vest, whereas his neighbour eliminated his burning hat and took off his personal jacket to assist smother the flames.

Abbkr, of Gillott Road, Edgbaston, then attacked Mr Rayaz round 100 miles away on 20 March after he left the Dudley Road Mosque in Birmingham.

CCTV captured Mr Rayaz's shouts of ache as he was engulfed in a ball of flame, which subsided to disclose he was on hearth from head to foot.

Abbkr then threw extra petrol onto the flames, inflicting a second fireball to engulf his sufferer.

Chief Inspector Haroon Chughtai, from West Midlands Police, mentioned each males had been left with "long-lasting physical injuries and significant mental trauma".

Counter-terrorism officers had been concerned within the investigation into the assaults within the run-up to Ramadan however no motive has been recognized.

"This was not treated as a terrorist incident. To date there is no evidence of an ideology," the officer mentioned.

"These were horrific unprovoked attacks on two men in their 70s and 80s who were leaving their local mosques and going home after their prayers."

Abbkr, who got here to the UK from Sudan in 2017 searching for asylum and was granted depart to stay two years later, had denied two counts of tried homicide and two different counts of maliciously administering a harmful factor to hazard life.

Jurors had been instructed he admitted to setting the victims on hearth however they needed to decide whether or not he had supposed to kill his victims and if he had identified what he was doing and that it was fallacious.

They heard proof from psychiatrists who mentioned he was affected by paranoid schizophrenia on the time of the assaults.

Abbkr instructed his trial he believed these he had set on hearth had been amongst a number of individuals "controlling him through magic" and claimed he didn't anticipate them to have been damage.

But the prosecution inspired the jury to reject the defence of madness, arguing that Abbkr had identified what he was doing was fallacious and had supposed to kill his victims.