A man has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in connection with the 2006 murder of Ibrahim Ilyas.
On Saturday 3 June 2006, Ibrahim was sat in a car on Abbeyfield Road, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, when he was fatally shot. Two other men were also injured in the shooting.
Earlier this year, on 7 March, Faiser Hussain was arrested at Manchester Airport and subsequently charged with murder. Hussain had been on trial at Hull Crown Court for the last two weeks and today (Tuesday 20 October) entered a guilty plea to committing an act or series of acts with intent to pervert the course of public justice.
The 44-year-old, of no fixed abode, was found not guilty of murder and two counts of attempted murder following the direction of the judge to the jury after the guilty plea was accepted. He was remanded into custody ahead of a sentencing hearing on Thursday (22 October).
A second man, Mohammed Ali, of Fir Vale, was convicted of Ibrahim's murder in 2006 and subsequently jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years.
