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| An Asian man who killed his BNP activist neighbour in a dispute has been jailed for eight years. | An Asian man who killed his BNP activist neighbour in a dispute has been jailed for eight years. |
| Habib Khan, 50, of Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in May of the manslaughter of 52-year-old Keith Brown who he stabbed with a kitchen knife in July 2007. | Habib Khan, 50, of Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in May of the manslaughter of 52-year-old Keith Brown who he stabbed with a kitchen knife in July 2007. |
| Khan's son, Kazir Saddique, was sentenced to a year in prison and a year on licence after admitting the unlawful wounding of Mr Brown's son. | Khan's son, Kazir Saddique, was sentenced to a year in prison and a year on licence after admitting the unlawful wounding of Mr Brown's son. |
| Khan said that living next door to Mr Brown for five years had been "hell". | Khan said that living next door to Mr Brown for five years had been "hell". |
| Khan, of Uttoxeter Road, Normancot, maintained he had held a knife against Mr Brown "to scare him" when he saw him trying to strangle his other son Azir. | Khan, of Uttoxeter Road, Normancot, maintained he had held a knife against Mr Brown "to scare him" when he saw him trying to strangle his other son Azir. |
| 'Thorough and impartial' | |
| Twenty-four-year-old Azir was found not guilty of attacking Mr Brown's son, Ashley Barker, at the trial at Stafford Crown Court. | |
| The jury found Khan guilty of wounding Mr Barker during the incident outside his home in Meir. | |
| After Khan's trial, Michael Coleman, a BNP councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council, claimed Khan should have been convicted of murder and accused the justice system of being corrupt. | |
| But Staffordshire Police said the investigation into Mr Brown's death had been carried out in a "thorough and impartial" way. | |
| Mohammed Gulzar, chairman of the Ghalani Noor Mosque in Stoke-on-Trent, described Khan as a respected, religious and helpful person. | |
| A post-mortem examination found Mr Brown died of a single stab wound. |