Al-Shamie called 999 at atrocity

COUNTER-TERROR police have revealed terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie called 999 during last Thursday's attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Crumpsall and 'pledged allegiance to Islamic State!

- By DAMON WILKINSON

It has also emerged the 35-year-old, who was shot dead by armed police at the scene, was carrying two knives and was wearing a 'hoax device'.

Al-Shamie drove into worshippers outside the Middleton Road synagogue at around 9.30am before attacking them with a knife. Two Jewish men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed in the attack.

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts, the north’s west top counter-terror cop, in tonight's update:

"We are now almost a week on from the appalling terrorist attack that took place at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.

"This has been a week of deep trauma and mourning for the Jewish community at a time when they should have been observing one of the holiest periods in the calendar of their faith.