‘I killed this man because he wanted me to be a terrorist’

An Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed a butcher to death at a halal meat store told a court his victim was part of a ‘Taliban network’ who tried to recruit him. Ehsannullah Mohabat, 18, plunged a knife into 24-year-old Pakistani Irfan Ahmad’s heart after grabbing it from the counter of Halal Food Direct on The Broadway, Wood Green. Mohabat said Mr Ahmad had tried to recruit him to the Wood Green Taliban cell, and when he refused, the jihadi agent…