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Prison for BNP activist's killer Prison for BNP activist's killer
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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 British National Party activist neighbour in a fight 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. The two men had been involved in a long-running dispute over land.
Khan said that living next door to Mr Brown for five years had been "hell". Khan said living for five years next door to Mr Brown had been "hell" and said his family had been subjected to "racial hostility" by his neighbours.
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. Stafford Crown Court was told Khan had killed Mr Brown in a fight outside their home in Uttoxeter Road, Normacot.
'Scare him'
A post-mortem examination found Mr Brown had died from a single stab wound.
But Khan claimed he had held a knife against his neighbour "to scare him" when he saw him trying to strangle his son Azir.
I think what we've witnessed here is an outrageous betrayal of justice Martin Coleman, BNP councillor
Khan, described by a Muslim colleague as a respected, religious and helpful person, was also found guilty of wounding Mr Brown's son Ashley Barker during the fight.
Khan's other son, Kazir Saddique, was sentenced to a year in prison and a year on licence after admitting unlawful wounding but Azir, 24, was found not guilty of wounding.
Outside the court, Mr Brown's widow Julia told reporters that she felt justice had not been done.
She said: "At the end of the day, it should have been murder not manslaughter.
"If he did not have the intention to go out and murder he should not have taken the knife out.
"Everybody feels sorry for that family but what have we been through?
"No, justice has not been done. None."
'Thorough and impartial''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. Local BNP councillor Martin Coleman said the party would start a campaign to "expose what has gone on today in court".
The jury found Khan guilty of wounding Mr Barker during the incident outside his home in Meir. He added: "It bears no relationship with any form of justice that I understand, can understand recognise or accept.
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. "We've got a man who has been murdered in the street. Someone has ran out into the public street with a knife and murdered a man and the judge says there's no, literally no case to answer.
But Staffordshire Police said the investigation into Mr Brown's death had been carried out in a "thorough and impartial" way. "It's insanity, it's madness. That's my view of this case. I think what we've witnessed here is an outrageous betrayal of justice."
Mohammed Gulzar, chairman of the Ghalani Noor Mosque in Stoke-on-Trent, described Khan as a respected, religious and helpful person. A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said after Khan's trial that the investigation into Mr Brown's death had been handled in a "thorough and impartial" way.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Brown died of a single stab wound.