A group of bungling kidnappers lured a Jewish music producer to a remote holiday cottage in west Wales to generate a ransom but were foiled when they failed to tie him to a radiator properly and he escaped.
Before carrying out the kidnap attempt, Faiz Shah, 23, Mohammad Comrie, 23, and Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime, 20, discussed their “intention of jihad” against Itay Kashti, an Israeli music producer and composer, who they believed had been on “pro-Israeli marches”.
Ogunnubi-Sime told his fellow kidnappers before the attempt: “Each one of us has 100 per cent faith in Allah, so we cannot fail.”
Entering the cottage, which the kidnappers had rented, was “like something out of a horror film”, Kashti said
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Kashti told the court he feared he would be killed and said that “as an Israeli, this felt like my own personal October 7”, about the