Migrant Murdered Lloyds Bank Customer After Asylum Application Was Refused
30th October 2025
A Channel migrant has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering a bank customer shortly after his asylum application was rejected.
Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, a Somali national who paid €400 (£350) to travel to Britain last year, attacked Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, with a kitchen knife at a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby.
The 47-year-old had called the charity Migrant Help less than two hours before the killing, which happened at about 2.30pm on May 6, saying he was “going to kill 500 people”, Derby Crown Court heard.
He later suggested he was going to target “doctors, police or people working at the Home Office”.
Nur had claimed asylum in October last year but his application was rejected by the Home Office because he had arrived “voluntarily”, a decision he later appealed against.