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A Ukrainian student has been jailed for at least 40 years for murdering an 82-year-old man and plotting explosions near mosques in racist attacks.
Pavlo Lapshyn stabbed Mohammed Saleem in Small Heath, Birmingham on 29 April, five days after arriving in the UK.
On Monday, Lapshyn, 25, admitted murder as well as plotting to cause explosions near mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton in June and July.
At the Old Bailey, he was told he would be jailed for life.
Mr Saleem was stabbed to death, just yards from his home, after attending prayers at his local mosque in Green Lane.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney told him: "You clearly hold extremist right-wing, white supremacist views and you were motivated to commit the offences by religious and racial hatred in the hope that you would ignite racial conflict and cause Muslims to leave the area where you were living.
"Such views, hatred and motivations have no place whatsoever in our multi-faith and multi-cultural society."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-24675040