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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T17:11:07.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nA Moroccan asylum seeker, serving life for the murder of a Hartlepool pensioner, has been charged with attempted murder and assault of prison officers.\n\nCounter terrorism policing have confirmed that Ahmed Ali Alid has been charged with attempted murder, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe incidents occurred at HMP Full Sutton on August 8, last year and at HMP Wakefield just over two months later.\n\n47-year-old was convicted of the murder of 70 year old Terence Carney in a Hartlepool Street in October 2024.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAhmed Ali Alid will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow.\n\nAlid was jailed for life in 2024 after he stabbed a stranger to death in an attack described by a judge as a terrorist act.\n\nPrior to the killing, he roamed the streets in Hartlepool seeking a victim to attack in “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023.\n\nHe killed Mr Carney by stabbing him multiple times.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nSentencing Alid for life, the judge said the killer had “hoped to frighten the British people and undermine the freedoms they enjoy”.\n\nHe was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his housemate, Javed Nouri.\n\nAlid was described as a follower of an extreme version of Islam by prosecutors.\n\nHe had told police the attacks were in protest against the Israel and Gaza conflict.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Police arrest man, 63, after Brentford players intervened in 'racist attack'\n  * Pausing facial recognition over racial bias exposes the flaw in modern policing - Peter Bleksley\n  * Exhibition that shows 'Jews eating babies' deemed NOT abusive or insulting by police\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe killer spoke through an Arabic interpreter throughout the trial and had admitted stabbing the two men but denied any intention to kill or cause serious harm.\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, said: \"The murder of Terence Carney was a terrorist act in which you hoped to influence the British government.\n\n\"You intended it as revenge for the actions of a foreign country, Israel, and to intimidate and influence the British government in its international relations.\n\n\"You hoped to frighten the British people and undermine the freedoms they enjoy.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Moroccan asylum seeker who killed pensioner charged with attempted murder and assault of prison officers"
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