A man who ran over a Muslim woman and a 12-year-old schoolgirl has been found guilty of attempted murder.
Paul Moore targeted the woman because of her “perceived Islamic faith.” He struck Zaynab Hussein as she walked along Acer Close in Leicester on September 20th 2017. He then drove over again her just moments later while allegedly laughing.
Moore also tried to hit a 12-year-old schoolgirl before telling passengers in his car that he’d done “the country a favour.”
During the trial at Nottingham Crown Court, prosecutor Jonathan Straw said Moore carefully and deliberately, in an act of calculated evil, aligned his wheels so the front and back wheels were over her.
“He did not know her. He tried to kill her purely because of the colour of her skin and because of her perceived Islamic faith as she was wearing a hijab. She had received severe fractures to her pelvis, her spine, and one of the bones in her leg was broken.”
Having deliberately, we say, tried to kill Zaynab Hussein, the defendant then drove at a second victim – a 12-year-old schoolgirl.
Straw said: “He did not hit her, he brushed her, but it is only by the grace of God and nothing more that she was saved.”
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Moore denied attempted murder, causing grevious bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving but today a jury found the 21-year-old guilty on all counts.
