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Attacker admits murdering British student

Updated: 14/Oct/2005 17:33

Yeshiva students in the streets of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem

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A Palestinian man, arrested by Israeli police for the murder of a British student in Jerusalem this summer, has admitted stabbing the youngster.

Abed al-Muaz Jueba said he killed Londoner Shmuel Mett in August as an act of revenge for the desecration of a Jaffa mosque, where a pigs head was thrown into the holy building earlier that month.

The suspect was arrested in his home town of Hebron on Saturday.

Mett, 21, was attacked as he was walking through a back alley in Jerusalem’s old city with fellow student Sam Weisband on 24 August.

I decided to carry out the stabbing on the holy land of Jerusalem, and preferred to die near the al-Aqsa Mosque

Abed al-Muaz Jueba, Shmuel Mett murderer

The pair both studied at the Mir Yeshiva in the Meah Shearim section of Jerusalem and had been returning home after visiting the Western Wall.

Mett, who hailed from Golders Green in London, was buried in Jerusalem.

Deadly attack

Police said that Jueba attacked both the students with a 30cm kitchen knife, leaving Mett for dead and injuring Weisband.

He then hid in a local mosque where he washed the blood off his hands and waited till the police opened up the gates of the old city.

Weisband managed to get away from the scene and alert police who found Mett lying on the floor. The Brit, who had been engaged to get married three months later, was taken to a local hospital but doctors were unable to resuscitate him and he died on the operating table.

Jueba, who is married with two children and works as a shoemaker, was caught on closed circuit TV cameras knifing the students.

Pre-planned attack

According to police Jueba travelled to Jerusalem by bus and sat down for a cup of coffee by Damascus gate in the old city before buying a knife and praying at a mosque. He then carried out the attack.

“I decided to carry out the stabbing on the holy land of Jerusalem, and preferred to die near the al-Aqsa Mosque," Israeli newspaper Yediiot Ahronot reported him as saying.

The newspaper said Jueba admitted stabbing the students during interrogation by the Shin Bet security services.

Speaking outside the Jerusalem magistrates court, where he was remanded for ten days, Jueba said he has no regrets over the murder and would willingly do it again.

Although he is believed to be a supporter of the Hamas terrorist organization, Jueba had no criminal record and is believed to have planned the attack alone.