Hitman sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to kill exiled worker
- On Friday afternoon, the court announced that Gohir Khan would serve a minimum jail term of 13 years before being eligible for parole.
- Khan had conspired to kill Goraya with the help of a middleman, whose whereabouts are unknown.
- Khan of Forest Gate, east London, was hired by some to execute the blogger’s murder, the court heard.
LONDON: Gohir Khan, a £100,000-hitman, has been sentenced by a Kingston Crown Court judge to life in the Netherlands for plotting to murder activist Ahmed Waqas Goraya, who was told he was on a “murder list” by the FBI. was in
On Friday afternoon, the court announced that hitman Gohir Khan would serve at least 13 years in prison before being eligible for parole. He conspired to kill Goraya with the help of a middleman, whose whereabouts are currently unknown and is believed to be being sought by Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorism Command Unit.
Khan, 32, who appeared in court wearing glasses and a waistcoat when he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, looked down. Justice Hilliard told him that he was “so firm and so perverse” in his argument that he posed a significant risk to the public.
“I can’t say when this risk will end, I hope you will work hard to address it, but there is at least a significant risk that you will resort to violence or serious harm in relation to another setback.” can take.”
“Travelling abroad to kill someone for payment of very substantial value and intending to do so when you are a victim, and to commit such other offenses to quench your debt, is such a serious matter which justifies imprisonment for life.”
Khan’s attorney, attorney Tim Maloney, said his client’s efforts “really, really lacked sophistication” and that his communication with the middleman was “dominated by the defendant’s tireless efforts to ensure that he was paid.” ”
He had booked hotels and cars in his own name and made no attempt to hide, “ensuring that any attempt, successful or otherwise, would inevitably lead the authorities to him.”
“The plot was of a serious and international nature, but his part in it was not sophisticated or professional,” Moloney said in the mitigation. He also told the court about Khan’s past clean non-criminal record.
Muhammad Gohir Khan of Forest Gate, East London was hired by some to execute the blogger’s murder, the court heard.
At the time Khan was living with his parents, wife and six children in a large Victorian house at Forest Gate, east London, and took 36 hours to leave the Iceland supermarket to travel to Rotterdam to commit the murder. Took time
Prosecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court that Khan was “hired for a fee as a hitman” to kill the intended victim through a middleman.
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