{"id":74495,"date":"2018-12-31T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74495"},"modified":"2018-12-31T19:31:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:31:15","slug":"israel-jails-palestinian-who-stabbed-british-woman-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74495","title":{"rendered":"Israel jails Palestinian who stabbed British woman to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Palestinian man who stabbed a British woman to death in April 2017 has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by an Israeli court.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old attacker, Jamil Tamimi, was jailed with a plea bargain that acknowledged he is mentally ill.<\/p>\n

He killed 21-year-old exchange student Hannah Bladon<\/strong> “at random” after she offered her seat on a tram to an older woman.<\/p>\n

Ms Bladon, a Birmingham University religious studies student, was part way through an exchange programme with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Despite initial reports classing the murder as a terror incident, the prosecutor denied this was the case, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Tamimi had hoped to commit suicide after engaging in the stabbing attack on 14 April 2017, but he was instead restrained by police and arrested.<\/p>\n

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“This was not a terrorist incident… this was a terrible murder carried out by a mentally ill person,” they said, according to a court transcript.<\/p>\n

Ms Bladon’s relatives feel the sentence is too lenient.<\/p>\n

Her family’s lawyer, Maurice Hirsch, told Reuters: “For the family, it makes no difference whether this was a terror attack or just another crazed murderer.<\/p>\n

“They are outraged by the leniency of the sentence. They expected that Hannah’s murderer would spend the rest of his life behind bars.”<\/p>\n

According to the court transcript, following sentencing Tamimi said: “I’m sorry. I wish I could take her place. I did not mean to murder her. I don’t know how it happened.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Palestinian man who stabbed a British woman to death in April 2017 has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by an Israeli court. The 59-year-old attacker, Jamil Tamimi, was jailed with a plea bargain that acknowledged he is mentally ill. He killed 21-year-old exchange student Hannah Bladon “at random” after she offered her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}