zahid mubarek

• Zahid Mubarek


  British Pakistani teen (19yo) murdered by cell mate in March 2000
• Zahid Mubarek's crimes and sentence

  1. In prison for breaking into cars and stealing them

  2. Failing to do community sentence

  3. Sentenced to 90 days detention in young offender institution
• Zahid Mubarek's murderer

  • Stewart was a racist and violent psychopath
  • Stewart often boasted about how he would 'commit the first murder of the millennium'
  • Stewart bludgeoned Mubarek with broken table leg while he was asleep
  • Stewart drew swastika at the site of murder
• Stewart was sentenced to life imprisonment, convicted of murder in November 2000
• Prison's failure to realise how dangerous it was to make these 2 share cell
• Stewart was a known racist, writing letters about fantasising and targeting BME in assaults, aggressive towards Mubarek the days leading up to his death
• Charity (Zahid Mubarek Trust) made to attempt to transform the prison system and helping people advocating for systemic change, seeking safety and wellbeing of prisoners and race equality in prison