A teenager has been jailed for five years after admitting stabbing his stepfather to death in a row over a television.Moynul Haque, 18, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mohammed Zillur-Rahman, 43, an imam at Chadwell Heath mosque, east London, at the Old Bailey in February.
He was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court in north London to five years in a Young Offenders’ Institute but could now be released in just two years as he has already served six months on remand.
Haque was 17 when the dispute broke out at the family home in Melford Avenue, Barking, in October last year.
An argument over Haque moving a television into his bedroom led to him picking up a knife from the kitchen and stabbing Mr Zillur-Rahman once in the heart after a struggle. Read More
