Endris Mohammed, a taxi driver, attempted to murder his wife, Penil Teklehaimanot, by tampering with a gas pipe and setting fire to the family home in Hamstead, Birmingham, jurors heard. A two-week trial at Birmingham crown court was told Mohammed – who was found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder – appeared normal in the run-up to the deaths. Mohammed, who suffered burns to his head after setting the passenger side of his taxi cab alight on the night of the killings, admitted smothering his children. Giving evidence during the trial, she said Mohammed was “a gentle, quiet man” who had not seemed angry or irritable in the months before her children were killed. She has lost her children, her husband who she trusted and loved the most, she has lost her house.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2017 12:04 UTC