'Pray for me…' The last act of a desperate man, desperate to get away with murder
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFloating in the middle of the English Channel, Suleman Altaf must have soon realised that he’d not thought through his escape plan very well.
Marooned on a dinghy in choppy water, he was well out of his depth, in both senses of the phrase. RNLI crews were dispatched to save him from the tiny boat he had chosen, before it could capsize and drowned him.
Given the current controversy surrounding ‘small boats’, and the Government’s crackdown on migrants attempting to make their way to the UK from France, the lifeguards who went to his aid could have been forgiven for assuming that Altaf was making the same journey.
But he was travelling in the other direction. The trail of destruction he’d left in his wake explained just how desperate he was to flee his adopted home country. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Because just hours earlier, 250 miles away, Altaf had tried to kill his estranged ex girlfriend, and murdered her 15-year-old son.
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