Felix the Cat
11-24-2005, 02:24 PM
Police hunt for Santa Claus killer (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/usanta.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/24/ixportaltop.html)
Police are hunting a man who stabbed to death a 25-year-old accounts manager while disguised as Father Christmas.
Sikandar Shaheen, 25, was killed in his home in Leytonstone, east London, on November 19.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the suspect was spotted near the scene on Grove Green Road wearing a red Santa hat and fake white beard.
Mr Garnish has appealed for witnesses to the incident, which took place between 5.30am and 7am.
Neighbours in the block of flats where Mr Shaheen lived called police after hearing a disturbance just after 6am.
Officers found the victim bleeding heavily in a hallway. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Mr Garnish said: "Sikandar was a hard-working, law-abiding religious man who attended mosques in the Leyton and Leytonstone area.
"We are appealing for members of the mosques who knew Sikandar to assist us.
"We are also appealing to anyone who knew Sikandar or knew his last movements leading up to Saturday to contact us."
He added that police were keeping an "open mind" about what the motive for the murder might have been.
Police are hunting a man who stabbed to death a 25-year-old accounts manager while disguised as Father Christmas.
Sikandar Shaheen, 25, was killed in his home in Leytonstone, east London, on November 19.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the suspect was spotted near the scene on Grove Green Road wearing a red Santa hat and fake white beard.
Mr Garnish has appealed for witnesses to the incident, which took place between 5.30am and 7am.
Neighbours in the block of flats where Mr Shaheen lived called police after hearing a disturbance just after 6am.
Officers found the victim bleeding heavily in a hallway. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Mr Garnish said: "Sikandar was a hard-working, law-abiding religious man who attended mosques in the Leyton and Leytonstone area.
"We are appealing for members of the mosques who knew Sikandar to assist us.
"We are also appealing to anyone who knew Sikandar or knew his last movements leading up to Saturday to contact us."
He added that police were keeping an "open mind" about what the motive for the murder might have been.