{"id":3510,"date":"2008-12-16T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/16\/jury-convicts-city-assassin\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T15:03:20","slug":"jury-convicts-city-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/16\/jury-convicts-city-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury convicts city \u2018assassin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Mohammed Rafiq jailed for 22 years<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/MohammedAslam_180x232.jpg\"\/>A BIRMINGHAM man who assassinated a father-of-two shooting him 16 times at point blank range with an Uzi sub machine gun has been jailed.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed Rafiq, 42, was found guilty of shooting dead Mohammed Sabir Aslam on Lozells Road, Handsworth, Birmingham in April 2003. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Aslam, a father-of-two, was shot 16 times at point blank range with a deadly Uzi sub machine gun. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Rafiq, of Colindale Road, Kingstanding, had pleaded not guilty to murder and firearm offences. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But he was convicted by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court and told he will serve 22 years before being considered for parole.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In July 2007 detectives reopened the case into Mr Aslam\u2019s murder and immediately arrested Rafiq after his DNA was found on a cap left at the scene of the murder four years earlier. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>When police went to his house they found a stash of weapons including the murder weapon, another Uzi machine gun, a semi-automatic pistol, 88 rounds of 9mm ammunition and a revolver.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSenior Investigating Officer, Glen Moss, described Rafiq as \u201cdangerous and calculating\u201d, adding, \u201cThis killing was planned and carried out in a calm and determined way\u201d. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHe said the 22 year sentence \u201cshows that we are determined that people who carry guns and commit murder will face a very long time in prison.\u201d&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Rafiq jailed for 22 years A BIRMINGHAM man who assassinated a father-of-two shooting him 16 times at point blank range with an Uzi sub machine gun has been jailed. &#13; Mohammed Rafiq, 42, was found guilty of shooting dead Mohammed Sabir Aslam on Lozells Road, Handsworth, Birmingham in April 2003. &#13; Mr Aslam, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}