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Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur was staying in Home Office accommodation when he unleashed the frenzy in Derbyshire, near Manchester. The Somalian national had paid £400 ($800) to enter the UK illegally just months before the killing. On May 6 this year, he entered the Lloyds bank as Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, was standing in a queue “going about his everyday business”, The Sun reported. Get all the latest news happening around the world as it happens — download the news.com.au app direct to your phone. The bar owner – known as Danny – was chatting to a friend on Facetime when Nur plunged a knife into his chest. He pleaded “why” and “what the f**k” as Nur walked out the bank less than 30 seconds later. Nur has now been jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years after he pleaded guilty to murder. Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “It was a real-life horror film for everyone connected to Mr Johal and everyone who had the misfortune of witnessing your wicked act.” It can now be revealed the killer was appealing against a Home Office refusal to grant his asylum at the time of the killing. Three weeks before the murder, Nur smashed a window in an electrical repair shop after he was unable to access Facebook on his phone. There had also been another incident in a bank where he shouted “f**k England” and branded customers “white racists”. Nur was also “known to the police” in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg before he arrived illegally in the UK in September last year. On the day of the killing, Nur had called Migrant Help complaining he was “living his life like an animal” and did not feel supported. Prosecutor Louis Mably KC said: “The call continued he became more erratic and at one stage he said he was going to end his own life by walking into traffic.” “Then he was asked why and he then said he was ‘going to kill 500 people and then kill himself’.” Nur also told the charity he was going to target “doctors, police or people working at the Home Office”. Two hours later, Nur was sitting on a bench with a half bottle of vodka in the city centre when Gurvinder walked past. Although there was “no interaction” between them, the killer got up and walked into the bank where he stabbed the dad-of-three. He was later arrested at home while he was intoxicated with half a bottle of vodka in his trousers. Nur told police he had no memory of the killing after drinking three bottles of vodka and 10 beers. In a heartbreaking tribute, Gurvinder’s family said: “We stand before you today broken and grieving and the future feels like a lifetime of grief. He was a rock, a shepherd, our angel on earth and his children say a monster took their daddy away. “A home once filled with laughter and his joyful presence is now in suffocated silence so loud it hurts. “Every morning we wake up expecting to hear his footsteps but there is only silence. “The silence screams his absence and the future now feels like a sentence of grief.” The family also said they are “tormented by the what ifs” and question if the situation would be different if Gurvinder had taken a different route or not gone to work that day. They also branded Nur a “coward and a demon” over the brutal killing. The family added: “His wife has lost her soulmate, partner, protector now and is now left to raise their children alone her life shattered her heart hollow. Our family is broken. “To the one who did this, we pray God shows you the same mercy you showed our son. “May you and your soul never rest in peace.” This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.
