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Man guilty of murdering sisters
2009-05-22
A man has been found guilty of murdering two sisters in their central Birmingham flat. Mohammed Ali, 29, of Old Snow Hill, had admitted the manslaughter of Yasmine, 22, and Sabrina Labri-Cherif, 19, but he had denied murdering them.

Birmingham Crown Court heard he had been in a relationship with Yasmine, who earlier accused him of rape. The sisters' bodies were found in the Jupiter apartments in September, with multiple stab wounds.

Ali will be sentenced at a later date.

The trial, which lasted two weeks, was told that Ali used three knives to stab Yasmine twice and inflict 35 separate knife wounds on her sister, leaving behind a scene of carnage.

The court was told Yasmine had dropped the rape charges against Ali, before he killed her.

Prosecutor David Crigman QC, had told the trial Ali stabbed both women in the lounge before dragging their bodies into a bedroom, leaving a "swathe" of blood on the floor. He added that Ali had twice gone to the kitchen to rearm himself after breaking two of the knives he was using. "He had left behind a scene of carnage," he said.

Yasmine had also undergone "a beating", Mr Crigman said, suffering wounds to her arm and wrist and an 8in (20cm) deep stab wound to her back which entered her heart. He said Sabrina's wounds were mostly done with precision, rather than anger, leading to the loss of all of her blood.

Ali was arrested in Dover, Kent, two days after the girls' bodies were found.

He added the sisters' mother had found the trial so distressing she had returned to the family home in London and was not present in court when Ali was found guilty.

He requested time for the family to "consider the position" and to prepare victim statements for the judge before sentencing.

Ali had earlier claimed in court that he had been provoked, but a jury took three hours and 20 minutes to convict him of murder.
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