Malik Faisal Akram's marriage fell into turmoil close to the tip of 2016 -- the identical 12 months that he was first flagged as a potential terrorism menace, in accordance with the UK paper.
Texas hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram had been a profitable British businessman — till his life fell aside on the finish of his 12-year marriage, in accordance with his brother.
The 44-year-old Brit, who was shot lifeless on the finish of Saturday’s 10-hour synagogue siege, ran a thriving chain of pharmacies in England named after his then-wife, Farzana, his brother Gulbar informed The Occasions of London.
However Akram misplaced all of them after his marriage broke down in 2016 — the identical 12 months that he was first flagged as a potential terrorism menace, in accordance with the UK paper.
“He was bitter as a result of he felt like she took every part away from him once they break up up, particularly his kids,” Gulbar mentioned of the couple’s six children.
Akram was additionally enraged that his spouse left after he had helped her household go “from rags to riches,” even shopping for them “the second-best mansion” of their Pakistan village, the 43-year-old brother mentioned.
He additionally “paid for all her brothers to get jobs overseas and paid for her father’s most cancers medication and coverings,” Gulbar mentioned.
In Could 2016, Akram was given a 28-day home violence safety order at a magistrates’ court docket, The Occasions mentioned, citing court docket papers.
He additionally appeared to grow to be extra extremist in his Islamic views, and that very same 12 months was first reported to “Forestall,” a UK counter-terrorism program.
Akram was additionally investigated by British intelligence service MI5 in 2020, however was not deemed a menace on the time — leaving him free to fly to New York on Dec. 29, shopping for a gun after which taking hostages on the synagogue in suburban Dallas, the UK paper mentioned.
He had referred to as Gulbar throughout the siege, saying throughout a vile anti-Semitic rant that he was searching for martyrdom and would come “residence in a f–king physique bag.”
He had additionally demanded the discharge of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in Manhattan Federal Courtroom in 2010 of making an attempt to kill US authorities in Afghanistan. She is being held in jail in Fort Price.
Akram was shot by brokers who stormed Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville after the hero rabbi threw a chair at him. The rabbi and his three congregants all escaped unhurt.
The UK paper mentioned it was unable to succeed in Akram’s ex-wife for remark.
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