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| Man guilty of murdering sisters | Man guilty of murdering sisters |
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| A man has been found guilty of murdering two sisters in their central Birmingham flat. | |
| Mohammed Ali, 29, of Old Snow Hill, had admitted the manslaughter of Yasmine, 22, and Sabrina Labri-Cherif, 19, but he had denied murdering them. | Mohammed Ali, 29, of Old Snow Hill, had admitted the manslaughter of Yasmine, 22, and Sabrina Labri-Cherif, 19, but he had denied murdering them. |
| Birmingham Crown Court heard he had had a relationship with Yasmine, who earlier accused him of rape. | |
| The sisters' bodies were found in the Jupiter apartments in September, with multiple stab wounds. | |
| The trial, which lasted two weeks, was told that Ali used three knives to stab Yasmine twice and inflict 35 separate knife wounds on her sister, leaving behind a scene of carnage. | |
| Ali claimed in court that he had been provoked. | |
| A jury took three hours and 20 minutes to convict him of murder. | |
| The court was told Yasmine had dropped the rape charges against Ali, before he killed her. |