A man had admitted murdering Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah, stabbing him to death because he had ‘disrespected’ Islam.
Tanveer Ahmed, 32, pleaded guilty to killing the respected businessman in an attack on March 24.
The defendant, who is a Muslim from Bradford in West Yorkshire, appeared today at the High Court in Glasgow.
The taxi driver had previously released a statement through his lawyer saying Mr Shah had ‘disrespected the message of the Prophet Muhammad.’
Mr Shah, an Ahmadi Muslim who moved from Pakistan to Glasgow in 1998, was discovered outside his shop on Minard Road with stab wounds.
He was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but was later pronounced dead.
Hours before the attack he had wished Christians a ‘very happy Easter’ on Facebook.
His death was greeted with an outpouring of emotion in the Scottish city, with hundreds, including Nicola Sturgeon, attending a candlelit vigil and a fundraiser for his family topping £100,000.
Ahmed also said, in his statement, that the shopkeeper ‘claimed to be a prophet’ and that ‘if I had not done this others would’.
