Shopkeeper who played dumb to ITV News convicted of murders | ITV News

A Leicester shopkeeper who played the victim on camera in an interview with ITV News after an explosion at his store has been found guilty of carrying out the "bomb-like" blast that killed five people.

Aram Kurd was convicted along with his accomplices Akran Ali and Hawkar Hassan over a plot to claim a £300,000 insurance pay-out.

The trio used “many, many litres of petrol” in an arson attack on Kurd’s supermarket, causing an explosion which completely destroyed the shop and a flat above the premises on February 25.

The next morning he told ITV News on camera he had no idea what caused the explosion and invented a detailed story of how he was thrown in the air by the blast.

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