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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Ruqya, shrine, and healing contexts Rochdale, England, UK · 2016

Mohammed Syeedy: life sentence for theological murder of ruqyah practitioner Jalal Uddin

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Islamic State supporter enforcing an extremist theological judgment, accomplice and getaway driver in a planned killing

Organization

Islamic State ideology and supporter network

Spiritual nexus

The statutory inquiry found that Syeedy and Kadir targeted Uddin because he practised ruqyah healing using written prayers in taweez. Their extremist doctrine treated that practice as unbelief deserving death, and they monitored Uddin and discussed punishment before the killing.

  • Curse or witchcraft threat
  • Prophecy or divine command
  • Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2016-09-16 · jury conviction and sentence

    Manchester Crown Court. Syeedy was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of twenty-four years. Mohammed Kadir, whom the later inquiry found struck Uddin and who had left the United Kingdom, was not tried in the cited proceeding.

  2. 2025-07-10 · final statutory-inquiry report

    Jalal Uddin Inquiry under the UK Inquiries Act 2005. The inquiry found that the motive was theological, that Syeedy and Kadir were Islamic State supporters, that they regarded Uddin's ruqyah practice using taweez as punishable by death and that both intended to bring about his death.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • extremist claim that ruqyah with taweez merited death
  • surveillance and religious policing
  • theological dehumanization
  • planned lethal violence

Primary record

Sources

official statutory inquiry report murder finding conviction and doctrinal nexus Report of the Inquiry into the Death of Jalal Uddin, HC 1040 (July 10, 2025).

The official statutory-inquiry report records Syeedy's conviction and life sentence, identifies Kadir's role, finds that the motive was theological, explains the ruqyah and taweez dispute and concludes that both attackers intended Uddin's death.

official counterterrorism police statement current disposition and inquiry response Counter Terrorism Policing North West, statement following publication of the Jalal Uddin Inquiry report (July 10, 2025).

The official police statement accepts the inquiry's conclusions, identifies the murder as extremist violence and confirms that Syeedy is serving a life sentence while Kadir remains wanted should he return to the United Kingdom.

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