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<\/p>\nGeoff Haliwell, a neighbour of Jihad al-Shamie, said that the killer\u2019s family had lived in the house for about 20 years. He said Shamie initially lived with both parents and two brothers. The father moved out about six or seven years ago but would return in a car with a French number plate.<\/p>\n
Hailwell, 72, said: \u201cI think he was the oldest of three brothers. One of the others moved out a few years ago. The dad came back occasionally.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he did not know if the killer worked but said he often used a weightlifting bench in the front garden. \u201cThey are a nice family. He was always straightforward. He dressed normally, sometimes in traditional [Islamic] dress.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cat that victim used to feed seen mewing outside home<\/p>\n
Cookie Vadve, 67, who also lives on the street, said her 12-year-old granddaughter had been \u201csobbing\u201d at the news of Adrian Daulby\u2019s death. \u201cHe was always giving them gifts, he would never forget their birthdays,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A ginger cat belonging to his neighbour that Daulby used to feed was mewing outside his home.<\/p>\n
Second victim was \u2018gentle soul\u2019 who loved nature<\/p>\n
Neighbours described Adrian Daulby as \u201ca gentle and innocent soul\u201d who loved nature and looking after children.<\/p>\n
A Muslim family who live next door to his home, where he lived alone a few hundred metres from the synagogue, said he was a cancer survivor who spent his time tending his garden and running a YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
Hussain, who did not want to give his surname, said: \u201cHe was very outdoors. His garden was his life. He was one of them who absolutely loved and adored kids as well. He didn\u2019t have any of his own but the street\u2019s kids were like his kids. He\u2019d give them presents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daulby had only recently started going back to the synagogue after his own father died. Hussain said: \u201cIt was three, four years ago that he just started going again. I spoke to him on Tuesday and he was taking about how it was going to be a big celebration day but because he was not feeling too good he was not going to fast. But he was debating if he was going to the synagogue or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attacker \u2018may have sent MP death threats in 2012\u2019<\/p>\n
John Howell received threatening emails after he spoke about Israel\u2019s right to defend itself<\/p>\n
CHRIS MCANDREW\/UK PARLIAMENT<\/p>\n
Counterterrorism police are to investigate whether the synagogue attacker made death threats to an MP over his position on Israel.<\/p>\n
John Howell, the Conservative MP for Henley until last year, received threatening emails in 2012 after he spoke about Israel\u2019s right to defend itself when it came under rocket fire.<\/p>\n
One of them was from a \u201cJihad Alshamie\u201d, who told him: \u201cIt is people like you who deserve to die.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Read in full: <\/b>Police investigate whether synagogue attacker Jihad al-Shamie threatened MP<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Former minister\u2019s father-in-law was inside synagogue<\/p>\n Sir Grant Shapps, the former Conservative defence secretary, told The Times on Thursday that his father-in-law was inside the synagogue in Manchester when the attack happened.<\/p>\n As he drove to see him with his wife, Belinda, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s just shocking. How can someone have so much hate in their hearts that they want to go out and murder people, also knowing they would probably die themselves?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just horrific. It\u2019s extremely worrying. It\u2019s barbaric.\u201d He said terrorism was a \u201ccancer that needs attacking\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>Grant Shapps\u2019s father-in-law came face to face with terrorist<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Attacker \u2018an odd man who kept himself to himself\u2019<\/p>\n Kate Mcleish, 38, a neighbour, said Jihad al-Shamie had lived in Langley Crescent for about ten years. She believed he lived alone.<\/p>\n \u201cI always thought he was an odd guy,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was always scruffily dressed \u2014 pyjamas and the clothes you would wear at home watching the TV. He always wore flip flops and a religious hat.<\/p>\n \u201cHe kept himself to himself and did not speak with anyone. He had a scruffy car, a black Kia. I don\u2019t think he worked unless he was working from home.<\/p>\n \u201cI always assumed he lived alone. Sometimes I was seeing a man visiting. I last saw him a couple of weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Pictured: Gaza protests in London last night Police scuffle with protesters in Parliament Square on Thursday against Israel\u2019s interception of the Gaza aid flotilla<\/p>\n GUY SMALLMAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n GUY SMALLMAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n Elchonon and Hindi Cohen, Jewish friends of Melvin Cravitz, visited his home on Friday morning to give their condolences after hearing of his death.<\/p>\n The couple described him as a chatty pillar of the local community who was beloved by all and attended the synagogue every week.<\/p>\n Mr Cohen said: \u201cHe was a lovely person. Always with a joke, always making a smile. He had his humour.\u201d<\/p>\n Mrs Cohen added: \u201cHe would visit us often. Before every festival we would have him over for a meal. He was very beloved. He was a figure round here. If you saw Melvin you stopped and talked.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t always have it easy. He had health issues, but he was always with a joke and a smile.\u201d<\/p>\n Cravitz, who had had two heart operations, had no children of his own but was regarded as a grandfatherly figure by his wife Karen\u2019s children from an earlier marriage. \u201cHe didn\u2019t have immediate family of his own but the family he had he was desperate to connect with,\u201d said Mrs Cohen. \u201cThis is a tragedy for all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Met urges pro-Palestinian protesters to cancel London demonstration<\/p>\n The Metropolitan Police have repeated calls for a planned pro-Palestinian protest on Saturday to be cancelled.<\/p>\n A statement from the Met published on X on Friday said: \u201cThe horrific terrorist attack that took place in Manchester yesterday will have caused significant fear and concern in communities across the UK, including here in London.<\/p>\n \u201cYet at a time when we want to be deploying every available officer to ensure the safety of those communities, we are instead having to plan for a gathering of more than 1,000 people in Trafalgar Square on Saturday in support of a terrorist organisation. By choosing to encourage mass law-breaking on this scale, Defend Our Juries are drawing resources away from the communities of London at a time when they are needed most.<\/p>\n \u201cWe urge them to do the responsible thing and delay or cancel their plans.\u201d<\/p>\n Neighbour recognised attacker<\/p>\n A neighbour of Jihad al-Shamie said she recognised the attacker in media coverage.<\/p>\n \u201cI recognised his little car, the Kia, because he\u2019d always park it badly outside ours. I\u2019d see him walking around in his pyjamas and slip-on sandals, carrying a shopping bag\u201d, the resident of Langley Crescent, Prestwich, said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was quite bulked up and used to keep his exercise weights in his garage. I\u2019d see him there\u201d, she told The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n Deport those displaying anti-British sentiment, says Jenrick<\/p>\n The shadow justice secretary has said that foreign nationals displaying \u201canti-British sentiment\u201d should be deported in a crackdown on antisemitism.<\/p>\n Robert Jenrick told Sky News: \u201cThis isn\u2019t a problem you can just throw money at, it\u2019s not just about putting up more fences, or providing more stab-proof vests or even having more armed officers in the key locations. It is about antisemitism and extremism in society.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no easy answer, but it does mean that we have absolute zero tolerance for it wherever we see it. Use Home Office programmes like Prevent robustly to reform and educate individuals who have this ideology within them where it\u2019s possible. <\/p>\n \u201cWhere it\u2019s not, these people should be in jail for a very long time to keep our streets safe and if they\u2019re foreign nationals and they are displaying anti-British sentiment \u2014 because it\u2019s not just anti-Jewish, it\u2019s anti-British sentiment \u2014 then they should be deported, they should not abuse our hospitality any longer.<\/p>\n Call for public inquiry into antisemitism<\/p>\n A former BBC1 controller has called on Sir Keir Starmer to personally lead a public inquiry into antisemitism after yesterday\u2019s terror attack. <\/p>\n Danny Cohen told Times Radio the prime minister could \u201cseize the opportunity\u201d to establish a national inquiry straightaway.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI\u2019d like to see him ensure that there\u2019s no place for antisemitism in our public services, in our schools and universities. I think something that maybe listeners may not be aware of is that Jewish schools and synagogues, regardless of what\u2019s happened on October 7 in this country, have to have full-time professional security.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat other minority in this country has to have its schools protected by security on a daily basis? I think that tells us that something has gone badly wrong in our society, and it needs urgently addressing.\u201d<\/p>\n Flags in the House of Commons have been lowered for the victims of the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.<\/p>\n Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons speaker, agreed for the flags to be lowered until 8pm on Friday.<\/p>\n Tributes to \u2018lovely bloke\u2019 killed in attack<\/p>\n A Muslim neighbour of Melvin Cravitz, who described herself as one of his best friends, said he was a \u201clovely, lovely bloke\u201d, adding \u201cI can\u2019t fault him\u201d.<\/p>\n The woman said: \u201cHim and wife and his wife Karen are my best friends. I\u2019m in shock myself this is absolutely horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the men who was murdered in the terror attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation can be pictured for the first time.<\/p>\n Melvin Cravitz, 66, died alongside Adrian Daulby, 53, as worshippers were celebrating the holy day of Yom Kippur at the synagogue in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n \u2018Only person responsible is attacker himself\u2019<\/p>\n The home secretary said it was important not to \u201cblur those lines\u201d between discussions of the attacker and legitimate discussions of immigration policy.<\/p>\n Shabana Mahmood told the Today programme that the attacker, who was shot and killed by police, came to the UK as a \u201csmall child\u201d with his family and became a naturalised British citizen while still a minor, in 2006.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI think it is entirely appropriate that a government facing challenges of integration and concerns about the scale and the speed of migration \u2026 that we do talk and shape a debate about what our expectations are of people who come and make their lives here.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the only person that bears responsibility for what happened yesterday is the attacker himself \u2026 we should not conflate that attack with the position of those who have come lawfully to our country, who have lived here, made their lives here, go about their business and follow the laws of our land.\u201d <\/p>\n Investigations continue at site of attack Forensic investigators near the Heaton Park synagogue on Friday<\/p>\n PETER BYRNE\/PA<\/p>\n Police markers indicate points of interest<\/p>\n HANNAH MCKAY\/REUTERS<\/p>\n Home secretary \u2018surprised\u2019 by terrorist\u2019s name<\/p>\n The home secretary was \u201csurprised\u201d by the Greater Manchester synagogue attacker\u2019s name, saying she had \u201cnever heard someone being called Jihad\u201d.<\/p>\n Shabana Mahmood was asked on LBC about the attacker\u2019s name, Jihad al-Shamie, which the presenter Nick Ferrari translated as \u201cstruggle of the Syrian\u201d.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI was very surprised to discover that name myself. Actually, as a Muslim, I\u2019ve never heard someone being called Jihad, but it is the name that he was born with \u2014 that has always been his name.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t have power to stop protests, says Mahmood<\/p>\n The home secretary has accepted she does not have any legal power to prevent a protest in London from going ahead this Saturday.<\/p>\n Asked whether she had any legal power to cancel the Defend Our Juries protest, which is in support of Palestine Action, Shabana Mahmood told Today on BBC Radio 4: \u201cNo, we have very strong provisions that protect the right to protest. The most important question, operationally and in terms of the law, is whether the police are able to police and respond to a protest.\u201d<\/p>\n Mahmood said the police had assured her they were able to police the upcoming demonstration, but added: \u201cI can take my lead from the police. If they were to tell me that there was an inability to respond and to police the protest, then there are powers that are available.\u201d She did not explain what those powers were.<\/p>\n Green leader defends deputy over previous \u2018antisemitic comments\u2019<\/p>\n The leader of the Green Party has responded to criticisms of allegedly antisemitic comments made by members of his party.<\/p>\n Zack Polanski<\/a>, who is Jewish, was questioned on the BBC\u2019s Today programme over whether Mothin Ali \u2014 who said after October 7 that Israelis were \u201cnot victims\u201d but \u201coccupiers [and] colonialists\u201d \u2014 was suitable to be a deputy leader, despite having later apologised.<\/p>\n Mothin Ali, one of the Greens\u2019 deputy leaders<\/p>\n ALAMY<\/p>\n Polanski said the views expressed by Ali were \u201ccontextual\u201d. He added: \u201cAs a Muslim man, I can only imagine what it feels like to know that every single day in Palestine the equivalent of a classroom of children are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 \u2018The Greens\u2019 new deputy leader unleashed hate on my family\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe need to have a nuanced conversation about what is a genocide and talk about what is actually happening as opposed to the words that people use. Do we need to take responsibility for the language we use? Absolutely, myself included.<\/p>\n \u201cI think an apology is a responsibility. I also think the very obvious thing in this conversation is that Mothin is a Muslim man and we know that Islamophobia is also on the rise. He also defends people\u2019s right to pray and their faith. He put out a statement yesterday about the antisemitic attack that I found emotional, I found moving and connected with me as a Jewish man.\u201d<\/p>\n Get a grip on demonstrations, Chief Rabbi urges PM Sir Ephraim Mirvis giving an address during a vigil days after the October 7 attacks<\/p>\n HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n The Chief Rabbi has called on the government to \u201cget a grip\u201d on \u201cdangerous\u201d pro-Palestinian marches, which he said often contained outright antisemitism and support for Hamas.<\/p>\n Sir Ephraim Mirvis told Today on BBC Radio 4: \u201cEver since October 7, 2023, there are so many people in our Jewish community and world beyond it who have wondered why are such marches allowed \u2026 Some of them contain outright antisemitism, outright support for Hamas \u2014 not every single person \u2014 however, there is so much of this, which certainly is dangerous to many of us in our society.<\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot separate the words on our streets, the actions of people in this way and what inevitably results, which was yesterday\u2019s terrorist attack. The two are directly linked and therefore we call on the government, yet again, we have been doing so continuously, we say get a grip on these demonstrations, they are dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018We face antisemitism in every aspect of our communal life\u2019<\/p>\n Antisemitism has risen \u201cextremely sharply\u201d since October 7, 2023, following a pattern Jews have experienced whenever there is conflict in the Middle East, according to Marc Levy, chief executive of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously we\u2019ve never had to endure a conflict that lasted this long, but it is right that there has been a failing in several sections of society to adequately deal with the scourge of antisemitism, given that we have seen incidents in every aspect of our communal life whether that is in universities, schools, workplaces, even in the NHS, and our cultural venues,\u201d he told LBC.<\/p>\n Levy said he had \u201cspecial memories\u201d of his whole family at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, which he has attended since he was a child.<\/p>\n He said his father was \u201cone of the people barricading the door to keep the terrorist out\u201d.<\/p>\n PM attends London synagogue Sir Keir Starmer attends a London synagogue with his wife, Victoria, Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper<\/p>\n The prime minister and his wife attended the West London Synagogue last night after the terror attack in Manchester.<\/p>\n He was joined by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, for a service to mark the end of the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n Starmer was pictured wearing a white kippah. Lady Starmer\u2019s family are Jewish and they occasionally take their children to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John\u2019s Wood, although they are both non-religious.<\/p>\n Robert Jenrick: Antisemitism has gone unchallenged too long<\/p>\n The shadow justice secretary has argued \u201cantisemitism and extremism has gone unchallenged for too long in our society\u201d and pointed to the \u201csoft left expressing things like \u2018globalise the intifada’\u201d as part of the problem.<\/p>\n Robert Jenrick pointed to universities where swastikas have been painted on the doors of Jewish students and professors with \u201coutright antisemitic views\u201d being allowed to continue teaching.<\/p>\n Show some humanity, Mahmood tells protesters<\/p>\n The home secretary said the protests last night were \u201cdisgraceful\u201d and urged people considering protesting over the coming days to \u201cshow some humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: \u201cI think the behaviour that we\u2019ve seen last night is fundamentally un-British. I think it\u2019s disgraceful and I would call on everybody who is considering protest in the next day or two to take a step back and to show some humanity and some love towards a community that is grieving.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that is the right thing to do. People can get on with their protest. Those issues unfortunately are not likely to come to an end in the next day or two. I think a little time to give the community here and across our country the chance to grieve, the chance to process what has happened and the chance to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager.<\/a><\/p>\n Enable cookiesAllow cookies onceProtests\u2019 strain on counterterror resources<\/p>\n The UK\u2019s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation said we may need to \u201clook again\u201d at whether marches can legally be allowed during periods where the terrorism threat level is high.<\/p>\n Jonathan Hall KC reflected on the fact the police have sent a \u201cbegging letter\u201d to organisers of a Defend Our Juries march on Saturday, to ask them not to hold their rally so policing and counterterrorism resources can be diverted to protect Jews, a request that the organisers refused.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThere may come a point where the counter-terrorist burden on the police and the need to protect people is so great and specific that we do need to look again at whether or not marches should be allowed to go ahead in those precise circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n Hall said there was no legislation in force that could be used to stop Saturday\u2019s march and he said any potential legislation would need to be \u201cextremely carefully looked at\u201d before being introduced.<\/p>\n Protests after attack \u2018un-British\u2019, says Shabana Mahmood<\/p>\n The home secretary said the protests held after the terrorist attack last night were \u201cun-British behaviour\u201d and urged people to show \u201csensitivity\u201d after the killings.<\/p>\n Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: \u201cI understand the strength of feeling that events in the Middle East have for people, not just here but around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is really imperative that we all stand together united as a country and do not allow things that are happening abroad to form tensions here at home.<\/p>\n \u201cI would ask everyone considering going to a protest to step back and reconsider.\u201d<\/p>\n Attacker was not known to police<\/p>\n The man who carried out an antisemitic terror attack in Greater Manchester was not known to the police, the home secretary has confirmed.<\/p>\n Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: \u201cThe attacker was not known to the security services. We know that he is a British national of Syrian descent.<\/p>\n \u201cHe came to this country as a young child and was naturalised as a British citizen when he was still a minor, but beyond that there isn\u2019t any other information I can share. He was not known to the counterterror police.\u201d<\/p>\n Keir Starmer: Hatred is on the rise<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer warned that antisemitic hatred was \u201crising once again\u201d as police were deployed<\/a> to protect Jewish sites of worship across the country after the attack.<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer speaks at 10 Downing Street after the incident in Crumpsall<\/p>\n JAMES MANNING\/AP<\/p>\n Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said that the terror attack was the \u201ctragic result\u201d of an \u201cunrelenting wave of Jew hatred on our streets, campuses, on social media and elsewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cOur hearts are shattered,\u201d he said in a statement on X. \u201cEmerging from the holy fast of Yom Kippur, British Jews are now grasping the full extent of today\u2019s terror attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester. This is the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come.\u201d<\/p>\n Two men killed the terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester have been named.<\/p>\n Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died after Jihad al-Shamie drove into a group of people outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue before stabbing a man, police said.<\/p>\n Three others remain in hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n Shamie was shot dead by police seven minutes after officers were alerted to the attack in Crumpsall on Thursday morning, which took place on Yom Kippur, Judaism\u2019s holiest day.<\/p>\n Three people have been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack in connection with the killings.<\/p>\n Killer was never referred for extremism<\/p>\n Shamie is thought to have been an Islamist terrorist but his records do not show that he was ever referred to the government\u2019s counterterrorism scheme, Prevent. 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