{"id":9818,"date":"2017-11-17T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2017-11-17T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:28:30","slug":"birmingham-child-murders-dad-guilty-killing-son-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/11\/17\/birmingham-child-murders-dad-guilty-killing-son-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham child murders: Dad guilty of killing son and daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A father has been found guilty of murdering his two young children who he smothered with a petrol-soaked rag before setting fire to the family home.<\/p>\n<p>Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor, six, were found dead at their house in Holland Road, Birmingham, in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Their father Endris Mohammed, 47, also tried to kill his wife by attempting to cause a gas explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver was found guilty by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>A two-week trial was told Mohammed\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-41930773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared normal<\/a>\u00a0in the run-up to the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>He was found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder after the jury deliberated for under 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed had denied the murders, claiming diminished responsibility allegedly caused by a depressive disorder.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sentenced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-42026040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A father has been found guilty of murdering his two young children who he smothered with a petrol-soaked rag before setting fire to the family home. Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor, six, were <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/11\/17\/birmingham-child-murders-dad-guilty-killing-son-daughter\/\" title=\"Birmingham child murders: Dad guilty of killing son and daughter\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[1872,4436,4437,4439,4438],"class_list":{"0":"post-9818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-child-murders","12":"tag-endris-mohammed","13":"tag-leanor-endris","14":"tag-saros-endris","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}