Man murdered passerby in Hartlepool over conflict in Gaza, court told

Ahmed Alid is accused of murdering Terence Carney, 70, and attempting to murder his own housemate

A 45-year-old man accused of murdering someone he came across by chance in the street told police he wanted to kill people because of the conflict in Gaza, wanting “Palestine to be free from the Zionists”, a court has heard.

Ahmed Alid, an asylum seeker living in Hartlepool, was said to have told police he had killed “because Israel was killing children” and that if he had had a machine gun, he would have killed more people.