Life sentence for ‘lentil eater’ killer

An Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed a butcher to death at a halal meat store after calling him a ‘lentil eater’ is facing a life sentence. Ehsannullah Mohabat, 18, killed 24-year-old Pakistani Irfan Ahmad with a knife he grabbed from the counter of Halal Food Direct in Wood Green, north London in September 2011. Mohabat claimed Mr Ahmad had tried to recruit him into a London-based Taliban cell and when he refused Mr Ahmad threatened to kill him and his…