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Triple Killer Afghan Asylum Seeker Jailed For Life For Murder
Triple Killer Afghan Asylum Seeker Jailed For Life For Murdering Aspiring Royal Marine Over Scooter Row
An Afghan asylum seeker who murdered a DJ in Bournemouth in Dorset following a row about an e-scooter has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 29 years.
BBC 26 JAN 2023
On Monday Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was found guilty by majority verdict of murdering 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside the Subway restaurant on Old Christchurch Road.
Today at Salisbury Crown Court he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum period of 29 years..
An asylum seeker has been jailed for life after killing a young man in a scooter row while on the run from Serbia for a double murder.
Fugitive Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, from Afghanistan, killed 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth, Dorset, on March 12, 2022.
He plunged a large knife - which he routinely carried with him - into the victim's chest twice before fleeing the scene.
The killer had arrived in the UK in December 2019 and was living in Poole, having attended a school pretending to be 14 while living with an unsuspecting foster mum.
He told police he was 16 when he was arrested, but the court determined that he is now 21.
He was found guilty of murder by majority verdict on Monday (January 23) at Salisbury Crown Court and jailed today to serve a minimum of 29 years behind bars.
In November 2020 he was convicted of the murders of two fellow Afghans in his absence by a Serbian court, having been wanted in the country since the killings.
Judge Paul Dugdale said on jailing him for the latest murder: "In seconds you took the life of a thoroughly decent man with a bright future who was loved greatly by so many people."
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