UK Man jailed for mosque threats after synagogue attack

A man who made death threats to two mosques in the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack has been jailed for more than two years.

Gabriel Levy, 21, from Wakefield, made an anonymous phone call to the Al-Sunnah Mosque in Cheetham Hill on 4 October 2025, telling the person who answered: “I’m going to come to your mosque and kill you,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

When Levy, who is Jewish, was arrested he told police he did it in response to the attack two days earlier, in which two men were killed.

A CPS spokesman said it later emerged he had called the Iqra Mosque in Manchester on the same day, telling a staff member: “I am going to kill you Muslim.”

Concerning messages were also uncovered on his phone, which included Islamophobic and racist language, as well as hate speech, the spokesman said.

Levy pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court to 28 months in prison.

Read more: BBC News