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| Muslim arrested for 'making up BNP kidnap story' | |
| 2009-09-04 | |
| A Muslim community leader who claimed he had been kidnapped at knifepoint after a BNP hate campaign has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. The BNP had been accused of whipping up racial tensions in the area after it issued an inflammatory leaflet about Mr Ramjanally's Islamic community group, the first in Loughton. Noor Ramjanally, 36, of Valley Hill, alleged in August that he was abducted by two men, bundled into a car boot, driven to Epping Forest in Essex and told to stop his religious work. His alleged ordeal became a cause célèbre among the Muslim community after it was reported in national press. He had also alleged that his Loughton home was firebombed in July and that he had received hate mail threatening his family. Mr Ramjanally, who was involved in organising Friday jumu'ah prayer sessions in the town's Murray Hall community centre, had claimed he feared he was about to be murdered when the car stopped and one of the kidnappers said Let's do it here.” The pair were then said to have marched him deep into the forest before warning him: “We don't want the Islamic group in Loughton'. The father-of-one said he thought the attack had been inspired by the BNP. He said: “I thought that my life was over. “They just said Get out' and walked with me for two or three minutes into the forest. “[When] we were deep into the forest. They said: We don't want the Islamic group in Loughton. I feared for my life. They said, If you don't stop, we'll come back'. Then they disappeared.” He said he then used a passer-by's mobile to dial 999. But today, Mr Ramjanally was himself arrested amid suggestions that he made the whole incident up.
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