Coventry man appears in court accused of murder in Leicester explosion
A man from Coventry will face trial after denying the murder of five people in a shop explosion.
Hawkar Hassan, 32, of Foleshill, is charged with five counts of murder or manslaughter and conspiring to commit fraud.
He will stand trial along with co-defendants Aram Kurd, 34, from Hillary Place, Leicester, and Arkan Ali, 37, of Drake Close, Oldham over the deadly explosion in a minimarket in Leicester on Sunday, February 25 reports LeicestershireLive.
All three men today denied both the murder or the manslaughter of the five people killed.
They also pleaded not guilty to conspiring among themselves - with Miss Ijevleva who died in t he blast - to commit fraud by false representation.
It is alleged they intended to make a gain by pursuing an insurance claim in respect of Zabka at 253 Hinckley Road, between December 31 last year and February 26 this year.
The prosecution allege that the cause of the incident was a petrol-fuelled explosion.
The three defendants were all assisted by Kurdish interpreters in the dock at Leicester Crown Court.
High Court Judge Mr Justice Holgate adjourned the hearing for a trial.
Ali, of Drake Close, Oldham, Hassan, formerly of Coventry, and Kurd, of Hillary Place, Braunstone, Leicester, were remanded back into custody.
If he needed a Kurdish interpreter he can hardly be described as a "Coventry man"