A British-Pakistani ‘hitman’ has been found guilty of plotting the murder of a Pakistani dissident.
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A British-Pakistani ‘hitman’ has been found guilty of plotting the murder of a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands.
A London court heard that Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year.
However, he failed to track down his target, and was arrested upon his return to the United Kingdom.
Now, a jury has handed down a unanimous guilty verdict of conspiracy to murder and he will be sentenced in March.
The intended victim, Waqas Goraya, a prominent social media activist and critic of the Pakistani military and government, lives in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Alison Morgan said that Goraya, who lives in the Netherlands with his wife and two children, was targeted for speaking out against the Pakistani government and military in a satirical post on social media.
She told the jury that Khan was hired by “other people living in Pakistan”.
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