Alleged associate of synagogue attacker appears in court on terror charges
A court's heard Mohammad Bashir is accused of driving the Synagogue attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, to the UK's Defence Academy to conduct earlier hostile reconnaissance
Last updated 5th Dec 2025
An alleged associate of Manchester synagogue attacker Jihad Al-Shamie is accused of driving him to the UK's Defence Academy to conduct earlier hostile reconnaissance, a court has heard.
Mohammad Bashir, 31, of Shaftsbury Road, Manchester, is charged with four terrorism offences, Westminster Magistrates' Court was told on Friday.
He is accused of driving Al-Shamie to the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on August 14, to carry out hostile reconnaissance of the location, weeks before the synagogue attack.
Prosecutors said he did so with the intention of assisting Al-Shamie to commit acts of terrorism.
But the assistance allegedly provided by Bashir was not in relation to the attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall on October 2, prosecutors said.
Worshippers Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed after 35-year-old Al-Shamie, a Syrian-born UK citizen, drove his Kia Picanto into the gates of the synagogue and then began attacking with a knife, wearing a fake suicide belt.
Al-Shamie was shot dead by armed police as he carried out his attack.
Bashir is also charged with three counts of sharing terrorist material on WhatsApp, the court heard.
The defendant appeared in the dock but was not asked to enter any pleas during the short hearing.
The British national, who police say has a self-defined ethnicity of British Pakistani, was arrested at Manchester Airport on November 27.
He was remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on December 12.