Afghan asylum seeker jailed for murdering ‘Taliban recruiter’

An Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed a butcher to death after claiming the man tried to lure him into a London-based Taliban cell was jailed for life. Ehsannullah Mohabat was 18 when he murdered 24-year-old Pakistani Irfan Ahmad after grabbing a huge knife from behind the counter of Halal Food Direct in Wood Green, north London, in September 2011. He plunged it so far into his chest that the blade cut through one of his victim’s ribs and pierced his…