Mohammad Bashir, 31, received a life sentence for planning and conducting hostile reconnaissance of the UK Defence Academy with Jihad Al-Shamie, who perpetrated a deadly synagogue attack. Bashir was arrested at Manchester Airport in November 2025 upon returning from Pakistan.
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Mohammad Bashir drove Jihad Al-Shamie to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Swindon
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at a military base.
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK’s Defence Academy
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at a military base.
A friend of a man who went on a deadly stabbing spree at a Manchester synagogue was jailed for life by a UK court on Thursday for planning a separate terror attack with him. Jihad Al-Shamie went on a knife rampage targeting a mosque in the northwestern city last October that killed two people. Al-Shamie was later shot dead by police. His friend Mohammad Bashir, 31, last month pleaded guilty to the
Bashir left the UK two days after the synagogue attack and was arrested at Manchester Airport in November 2025 when he returned from a family wedding in Pakistan.