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Student admits killing man (82)

A UKRANIAN student with a hatred of "non-whites" has admitted murdering an 82-year-old man and plotting to cause explosions near mosques. Pavlo Lapshyn (25), pictured above right, a postgraduate student from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday and pleaded guilty to murdering Mohammed Saleem, pictured right, as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham in April. He also admitted causing an explosion on July 12 near the kanzal iman mosque in Tipton and engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts between April 24 and July 18 this year. This included planting bombs near mosques in Walsall and Wolverhampton and researching locations to plant bombs. Lapshyn will be sentenced on Friday.