Revealed: Afghan Hijacker Now Working At Heathrow
Daily Mail
Airport security was condemned as a joke after an Afghan involved in the Stansted hijacking was found to be working at Heathrow as a cleaner.
Police arrested Nazamuddin Mohammidy at Terminal 5 where he showed his British Airways pass allowing him access to secure areas.
The Tories said it was a breathtaking breach of security and demanded immediate action from the Government.
Mohammidy, 34, was one of nine Afghans who won the right to live in Britain after hijacking a passenger flight in Afghanistan in 2000. The Boeing 727 was flown to Stansted in Essex where the captors threatened to kill the 160 passengers unless they were granted asylum.
The gang was jailed but later released and given the right to remain in Britain rent-free, receiving £150,000 a year in benefits.
It emerged police pulled over Mohammidy as he was driving round Terminal 5 because they thought he was an unlicensed cab driver. He told them he worked at the airport and they were stunned when they checked out his story and found he was a former hijacker.
Mohammidy hijacked this internal Afghan flight and landed it at Stansted airport in 2000. He was escorted off the plane after a 4-day siege
Mohammidy works for a contractor used by British Airways to clean its offices and training centre at Heathrow.
The airline insisted he did not have an “airside” pass which would let him near planes, but his BA credentials did grant him access to restricted areas, it is understood.
Yesterday Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “It is clear the Government do not have a grip on airport security.
“This individual should patently not be permitted access to secure locations at our airports, and immediate checks must be made on all other employees.”
Tory aviation-spokesman Julian Brazier has written to Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick describing the breach as “beyond parody.”
After police pulled in Mohammidy at Terminal 5, they also discovered he was in breach of bail conditions over an assault charge.
He is accused of beating up a former landlord and is due before magistrates on Monday.
Earlier this week Mohammidy, who has been living in Hounslow, West London, appeared in court over the bail breach but magistrates in Uxbridge bailed him again.
Scotland Yard confirmed the incident in which he was stopped at Heathrow.
A spokesman said: “In December 2007 officers stopped and searched a man under section 44 of the Terrorism Act at Terminal 5. Inquiries revealed he was in breach of bail.”
British Airways said in a statement: “We have been helping the police with their inquiries into a man who is employed by our cleaning contractors. He does not work at the airport and does not hold an airside pass. He works at one of our properties about a mile away.”
One of the armed hijackers, faced covered with a balaclava, patrols the tarmac at Stansted in 2000
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1. a .22 LR cartridge…for someone who needs two in the head… like for instance “Nazamuddin Mohammid” or Keith Olby-fuck…
…(yeah right, I’m actually going to look up the correct spelling of Olby-fuck’s last name).
The gun is for a shot of Whiskey (Kudos to Larry
)…not two in da’ head!
May 16th, 2008 at 8:40 pmUn-freakin believable.. asylum for plane hijacking plus a rent free lifestyle and a 150k a year social benefit, including a job at the airport?? WTF!!??
Have Britons lost all common sense?? Geeeeeee pull your heads out from your dhimmi arses already!!
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” - Sir Winston Churchill.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:34 pmI’m speechless. I struggle everyday for income to pay living expenses and here is a guy who commits a substantial crime and
May 17th, 2008 at 9:07 amgets rewarded for it. Time to build that bunker and start laying in supplies….