The killer of Glasgow shopkeeper is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Tanveer Ahmed, who is serving time for a minimum 27 years for the murder of Glasgow-based Asad Shah, is becoming a cult figure among extremists in Pakistan.
The Bradford taxi driver has been preaching to his followers in Pakistan on a prison phone and has continued to produce a stream of recordings justifying the murder, a report in The Times said.
Thirty-two-year-old Ahmed has now been banned from using the phone in his Scottish jail.
Ahmed believed Shah committed blasphemy, and recently in January he said “beheading is the only punishment for a blasphemer” and called for the enemies of Islam to be “eliminated”.
His crime has inspired a number of Pakistanis who see him as a “defender of Islam” for having killed someone they believe disrespected the Prophet Muhammad.
