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| British Man Killed For Refusing To Convert To Islam |
| 2006-01-06 |
| A mother described yesterday hearing her son shot dead after he refused to convert to Islam. Ruth Marriott told an inquest into her son's death that she heard gunshots on the day Adrian was shot five times in the head a few weeks before his 21st birthday. Mr Marriott, an accountancy student and gang member, was killed in a park near his home in Brixton, south London, in June 2004. Three members of a rival gang, known as the Muslim Boys, were cleared in September last year of conspiracy to murder Mr Marriott after the prosecution offered no evidence at the Old Bailey. His mother told the inquest at Southwark Coroners' Court yesterday: "We heard the shooting. We heard gun fire. "The thought did strike me that Adrian could be involved, but it was a fleeting thought. Then we heard from police the following evening what had happened. "Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by the Wednesday, which was the day he died." Asked by the coroner, John Sampson, whether her son had taken the threat seriously, Mrs Marriott said: "I do not think he did." She said she had last seen him on the afternoon he was killed. "He was happy. He was pestering me to order something for him out of my catalogue," she said. "Adrian was very much a family man." The coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing. Det Sgt John Stafford, who led the murder investigation, told the inquest that he was still searching for evidence to convict Mr Marriott's killers. He said: "It does indeed remain a live matter. We are still keen to talk to witnesses." Another example of senseless gang accountancy. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #2 It is our way. INFIDEL! |
| Posted by: Abu Art Anderson 2006-01-06 20:02 |
| #1 Special investigation: Are 'Muslim Boys' using profits of crime to fund terrorist attacks? The Muslim Boys have a fearsome reputation for killing in the name of their own brand of Islam. Last week one of them went to jail for 22 years. But are they criminals or terrorists? Shiv Malik met the gang members themselves to find out Published: 14 August 2005 On the desolate streets of south London, reputation is all. And among the gangs that roam them, no name has a more fearful resonance than the Muslim Boys. They are, according to Lee Jasper, the Mayor of London's senior adviser on policing, "the biggest criminal phenomenon" he has ever witnessed. Sworn to bring a criminal jihad to Britain, they don't just do law-breaking, they do it, apparently, with a militant Islamic vengeance. If their advance publicity is to be believed, they make the Yardies look like the Women's Institute. |
| Posted by: john 2006-01-06 19:29 |