An Afghan asylum seeker who claimed he was 16 when he was actually 21, has been found guilty of murdering a young man in England, but it has emerged that he was also convicted in absentia of a double murder in Serbia.
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai faces a mandatory life sentence after a jury at Salisbury Crown Court convicted him on Monday of the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts in a Subway sandwich shop in the English seaside resort of Bournemouth on March 12, 2022.
After he was convicted, prosecutor Nick Lobbenberg, KC, told the court about Abdulrahimzai’s criminal past in Europe.
Lobbenberg said Abdulrahimzai was identified as the man who killed two fellow Afghan migrants with a Kalashnikov rifle in August 2018 after a dispute about people-trafficking….