Small boat migrant Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, has been jailed at Derby Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 25 years for stabbing a bank customer to death in the city in May.
Nur – a Somalian national – was staying in Home Office accommodation in Derbyshire at the time of the attack, having paid £400 to enter the UK illegally a few months earlier. On May 6, he entered the Lloyds Bank as Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, was standing in a queue “going about his everyday business”. The bar owner, known as Danny, was speaking to a friend on Facetime when Nur entered a plunged a knife into his chest. He pleaded “why” and “what the f***” as Nur walked out of the bank barely 30 seconds later. It has now been revealed that the migrant was appealing against a Home Office refusal to grant his asylum at the time of the killing.
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.”
Three weeks before the murder, Nur smashed a window in an electrical repair shop after he was unable to access Facebook on his phone. Another incident in a bank saw him shout “f*** England” while branding 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 2024.
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