UK Synagogue Attacker Was Out on Bail in Rape Case
4th October 2025
Jihad Al-Shamie, the Syrian-born British citizen who police say attacked a synagogue in England on Thursday, resulting in the deaths of two worshippers, was out on bail on suspicion of rape at the time, according to reports.
Authorities had said that Al-Shamie was not known to them before his terror attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester despite being investigated in connection with an alleged rape earlier this year.
Al-Shamie was fatally shot by police after plowing his vehicle into a crowd of worshippers on Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the Jewish year — and stabbing them.