Imran farooque trial#
Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, SO15, investigated the killing, speaking to more than 4,000 witnesses and collecting more than 4,500 pieces of evidence.Įxhibits in the trial included CCTV footage that showed Syed and Kamran around Edgware in the days leading up to the attack. MQM, long accused of using extortion and murder to cement its grip on power, was accused for years of fomenting ethnic violence in Karachi. His membership of MQM had been suspended at the time of his death. He left Pakistan to avoid arrest in connection with several legal cases against him in Karachi and later sought political asylum in Britain. Hussain has denied any role in the killing and maintains that Farooq was like a brother to him.Īs well as Kamran, two other men – Iftikhar Hussain and Mohammad Anwar – were named as fugitives to be arrested by Pakistani or British authorities.įarooq had been living in exile in the UK since 1999. The court additionally issued an arrest warrant for Altaf Hussain, who heads the MQM party, declaring he had ordered the killing. Two other men, Khalid Shamim and Moazzam Ali, who are in jail in Rawalpindi, were also convicted for their involvement in the killing. A second man, Muhammad Kashif Khan Kamran, 40, was convicted in his absence of murdering Farooq and is wanted by Pakistani authorities. On Thursday a court in Islamabad found Mohsin Ali Syed, 35, guilty of murder and conspiracy to murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The killing of Farooq, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), sparked rioting in his native city of Karachi. A Pakistani court has convicted several men over the murder of a prominent exiled politician in north London 10 years ago.ĭr Imran Farooq, 50, was repeatedly stabbed and bludgeoned with a house brick in Edgware as he returned home from work on 16 September 2010.