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Man Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter of Ex-Army Veteran in Birmingham
Muntahar Ahmed pleaded guilty to manslaughter after pushing 82-year-old ex-Army veteran Allen Karem Chand off a bus stop kerb, causing fatal head injuries in a random attack.
- On Monday, Muntahar Ahmed pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Birmingham Crown Court and will be sentenced at a later date.
- At a Soho Road bus stop in Handsworth, a stranger grabbed Allen Karem Chand's walking stick and shoved him off the kerb around 3.30pm on January 14, 2026, in a random attack.
- The shove fractured Chand's skull and caused a significant bleed on the brain, and members of the public rushed to help before he was taken to hospital where he died five days later.
- Officers from West Midlands Police arrested Ahmed two days after he revisited Soho Road, initially charging wounding before upgrading to manslaughter, and Detective Sergeant Joanne Potter called the attack an unnecessary act of violence.
- Family tribute included the line 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life', and the motive remains unknown, with neither man knowing each other.
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'Loving' army veteran, 82, died after being pushed into road in random attack
Allen Karam Chand, 82, was attacked by Muntahar Ahmed, 44, at a bus stop in Handsworth, Birmingham, in January - and tragically died days after the assault left him with a fractured skull
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