Global InformationPavlo Lapshyn information
Pavlo Lapshyn | |
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 Police photograph of Lapshyn after his arrest | |
| Born | Pavlo Sergiyovich Lapshyn 12 March 1988 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Occupation | Post-graduate engineering student |
| Motive | Racism[1] |
| Criminal penalty | Life, with a minimum of 40 years |
| Details | |
| Date | 29 April to 12 July 2013 |
| Location(s) | Small Heath, Birmingham Walsall Wolverhampton Tipton |
| Target(s) | Non-whites[1] |
| Killed | 1 (Mohammed Saleem) |
| Injured | 0 |
| Weapons | Dagger, home-made explosives |
Date apprehended | 18 July 2013 |
Pavlo Serhiyovych Lapshyn (born 12 March 1988; Ukrainian Cyrillic: Павло Сергійович Лапшин[2]) is a Ukrainian white supremacist terrorist who committed crimes in 2013 against Muslims in the United Kingdom. Lapshyn was given a life sentence, and will serve a minimum of 40 years,[3] for a murder in Birmingham and three attempted bombings of mosques in the West Midlands. He confessed to police that his motivation was to kill and harm non-whites.[4]
- ^ a b Lumb, David (21 October 2013). "Pavlo Lapshyn's 90 days of terror". BBC News.
- ^ "МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ, МОЛОДІ ТА СПОРТУ УКРАЇНИ". Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Black Country mosque bomber Pavlo Lapshyn jailed for life". Express & Star. 25 October 2013.
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