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Thug who beat up Orthodox Jews claims he was high on mushrooms

Abdullah Qureshi has no formal mental health diagnosis but claimed he was hallucinating during attack

December 15, 2022 18:17
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A Muslim who travelled nearly 200 miles to carry out three race hate attacks on Orthodox Jews claimed he was high on cocaine and magic mushrooms at the time.

Abdullah Qureshi, 29, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, assaulted Jacob Lipschitz, Chaim Greenfeld and a 14-year-old boy in Stamford Hill, north London, on 18 August last year.

A screenshot on Qureshi's phone recovered by police showed a Dua, an Islamic prayer of request that read: “Protection from your enemy: oh Allah, we ask You to restrain them by their necks and we seek refuge in You from their evil.”

Qureshi was playing Arabic music aloud from his phone in one hand and held a glass bottle in the other when he assaulted Mr Greenfeld on Cazenove Road at 6:40pm.

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