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January 4, 2006

UK: Mother Heard Son Shot For Not Becoming Muslim

We reported in September on the disturbing attempts by a criminal black gang in South London, called "The Muslim Boys", to convert people through threats of violence. A report from London's Evening Standard stated:

The Muslim Boys, they say, are notorious for intimidating imams into opening their mosques in the early hours of the morning so that they can pray, often right after committing crimes, and for their "forced conversions", carried out at gunpoint, of black youths to Islam. At least one local young man, Adrian Marriott, thought to have resisted such a conversion, is believed to have been murdered "as an example to others"

Three members of the gang were accused of the murder of 21-year old Marriott, who had been shot five times in the head on 8 June, 2004. At the Old Bailey, Marcus Archer, Aaron Irving-Simpson and Marlon Stubbs, all aged 24, went on trial in early September, 2005, but on September 10 the case was dropped. Police had uncovered "new evidence" and the prosecution offered no further evidence to the court.

Irving-SImpson and Stubbs were set free, but Marcus Archer was jailed for eight years on a previous illegal firearm offence. When armed police had arrested him outside a Croydon mosque, Archer had a loaded handgun in his pocket.

The UK Daily Telegraph reports that an inquest into Adrian Marriott's death has heard evidence from his mother, Ruth Marriott.

She said at Southwark Coroner's Court earlier today that the killing had taken place a few weeks before her son's 21st birthday. Adrian was an accountancy student and member of a gang which was a rival to the Muslim Boys. Ms Marriott also described how she had heard the shots which had killed her son.

"The thought did strike me that Adrian could be involved, but it was a fleeting thought. Then we heard from police the following evening what had happened," she said. "Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by the Wednesday, which was the day he died."

John Sampson, the coroner, asked her if Adrian had taken the threat seriously. "I do not think he did," she answered.

The coroner delivered a verdict of unlawful killing. John Stafford, the detective sergeant who led the police investigation, told the inquest that evidence to convict the killers was still being sought. He said the case remained "a live matter. We are still keen to talk to witnesses."

The Guardian from March 7, 2005 carried a report on the Muslim Boys.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 4, 2006 10:35 PM

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