An Iraqi national secretly knew about plans to attack the Heaton Park Synagogue but did not tell police, a court heard.
Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim, who previously entered the UK illegally, was said to have been a close associate of terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, and met several times before the 35-year-old Syrian-born British citizen struck on October 2 last year.
Al-Shamie drove into the gates of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue and launched a knife attack which left Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby dead. Several others were injured.
Al-Shamie, who was wearing a fake suicide belt, was killed by police gunfire at the
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