07/07/2016 Reporting Scotland

A Bradford taxi driver pleads guilty to the religiously-motivated murder

We'll examine the background to this case and hear

-- but his family after living in fear. It has split the family apart.

Some members of the family have left Scotland or are in the process of

leaving. We'll examine the background

to this case and hear Two young children die after the car

they were travelling Thousands of music fans are heading

to Perthshire for T In The Park, but can the festival avoid last

year's traffic chaos? It's the opening day

of the Scottish Open, and the golfers are facing an extra

challenge - the Highland weather. And, forget the rail replacement bus

- here's the road replacement train. A 32-year-old man has admitted

murdering a Glasgow shopkeeper Tanveer Ahmed drove from Bradford

to Glasgow to kill Asad Shah at his shop in the Shawlands area

of the city. Aileen Clarke was at

the High Court in Glasgow. Asad Shah, a friendly local

shopkeeper, much loved by all of the community he served in Glasgow. In

person, you was chatty and upbeat, a personality that also found an

outlet on social media, posting his thoughts on Islam, is humanity and

religion. Tanveer Ahmed from Bradford became aware of some of

these postings on a trip to Glasgow. He believed Asad Shah was

disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad. He travelled back to Glasgow a few

days later, telling Fred, "This needs to be nipped in the bud". The

judge were shown CCTV footage taken from a camera behind the counter of

Asad Shah's shop and 90 was attacked. Ahmed is seen talking to

him, he stand aside to let another customer be served and then comes

back and continues the conversation. Reaches into his robes, pulled out a

knife, comes around to Mr Shah's side of the counter and start

stabbing him repeatedly. Mr Shah flees into the road. More CCTV

footage there shows him being repeatedly attacked, stabbed,

stamped on, punched, way beyond the point he was able to do anything to

defend himself. There was a huge public outpouring of shock and

sympathy in Glasgow in the days following the murder. He was very

friendly and morning we shook hands and said, "Good day, have a nice

day", just a person, lovely lad. Very sad, everyone is very sad. We

could not believe when we heard the news. Very upset and last night,

when we heard it. Vigil was quickly organised and very well attended but

the grief became all the more acute for Asad Shah's wife and family,

left devastated, shaken and scared. It has split the family apart since

the incident. Some members of the family have you they have left

Scotland or are in the process of leaving. When the police arrived

that night, Mr Shah was dying on the pavement, despite the best efforts

of a doctor and nurse who came across the scene. Ahmed sat quietly,

praying in a bus stop, waiting for the police to arrest him, even

showing them where the knife was lying. It was clear Tanveer Ahmed

was motivated by his own religious beliefs but that is not an excuse to

conduct the actions he has. A sentiment echoed by the judge who

told Ahmed he was facing a very lengthy prison sentence for this

truly despicable and shocking crime. The shop where Mr Shah shook hands

with his customers and enquired about their families stays tightly

shuttered. His family said he can't face the prospect of running it

without him. Aileen Clarke, Reporting Scotland, Glasgow.

As we've seen, the murder prompted an outpouring of grief

from the community in the south side of Glasgow.

But the killer of Asad Shah has shown no remorse.

The court heard that Tanveer Ahmed set out purposefully

to carry out the murder, driving from his home in England.

Andrew Kerr reports now on what may have motivated him.

His report contains comments that you might find upsetting.

The city of Bradford in West Yorkshire. Those limbs make up a

quarter of the population. This was home for Tanveer Ahmed, and where he

first heard about Asad Shah. He had moved here from Pakistan in 2001 and

lived with his wife and family. There was no hint of his capacity

for violence. Preceding the act of the crime, there was a calmness but

the act itself was four minutes of extreme violence, the likes of which

we have not seen before. This is unique event in terms of where it

has happened and why it has happened. So why did the religious

musings of a Glasgow newsagent prompt this crime? Ahmed has been

quite clear, in his highly unusual court statement from April. He said,

"Asad Shah disrespected the messenger of Islam, the Prophet

Muhammad. Mr Shah claimed to be a prophet. If I had not done this,

others would and there would have been more killing and violence in

the world". Ahmed, who is 32, worked for the taxi firm Uber and set off

from Bradford on the Thursday before for the taxi firm Uber and set off

Easter weekend, his destination Glasgow South side. After arriving

here, Tanveer Ahmed stabbed Mr Shah in his shop, the punishment for what

he saw as blasphemy. He made no attempt to escape and was detained

by police at the scene. His Volkswagen remained abandoned

industry. Tanveer Ahmed's hard-line views do have some mainstream

support in his home country of Pakistan, which has some of the

strictest blasphemy laws in the world. Insulting the majority

religion of Islam can be punished by death. The BBC spoke to Tanveer

Ahmed's brother in Pakistan, who did not denounce his brother's actions.

Some viewers may find his remarks offensive. TRANSLATION: Our profit

is the last prophet but Asad Shah negated that by telling lies to

is the last prophet but Asad Shah everyone in a very wrong way. There

was no other way to stop him, until his tongue was made silent. Mr Shah

was and Ahmadiyya Muslim, his tongue was made silent. Mr Shah

sect within Islam who have faced persecution in Pakistan. Peace and

blessings on you. But it was his videos, posted online, that made him

a target for Tanveer Ahmed. He was claiming to be a profit. If someone

says, "I am God", you don't just go and kill the person on that ground.

This extreme thinking has caused this murder. Asad Shah was

confronted with extreme thinking and extreme violence. One man would

simply not tolerate the views of another. Andrew Kerr, Reporting

Scotland, Glasgow. Before we came on air,

I spoke to the BBC's I began by asking Shaima

Khalil about the issue It is an extremely sensitive issue

here, and issue that provokes a lot of violence and a lot of fear among

people. And the reason for that is that blasphemy, firstly, officially,

is a capital crime in Pakistan. Someone accused of blasphemy can

stand trial and possibly get the death sentence. Despite no one

actually having been executed for it, dozens of people were killed

outside court, they were killed before their cases even made it to

court. And the reason for that is, many people get quite provoked that

someone, who they see has insulted the profit and Islam, or the

Prophet's family in any way, take it upon themselves to defend Islam, as

they say, or defend the honour in the name of the profit, and as a

result of that, there are many cases of violence -- of the Prophet. There

are instances of people being killed or injured having just been used

blasphemy. There have been many calls the laws to be changed and

many people have spoken against it because they said mainly targets

religious minorities. But it is a very sensitive subject which is

often quite life-threatening to the people who talk about it. So many

people, especially politicians, avoid talking about it. What can you

tell us about the specific background to this case? To

understand what inspired Tanveer background to this case? To

Ahmed to do what he did, we have do talk about a man in Pakistan who has

become the symbol, if you make of the kind of islands that the issue

of blasphemy inspires and provokes. This is a man who killed the

governor of the Punjab province five years ago because the governor spoke

out against the blasphemy law and he was imprisoned for five years and

subsequently hanged. But too many of his supporters, they think of him,

still, as a hero, the man who defended the religion and the

Prophet. It is not just Pakistan where he enjoys support. He also

enjoys support in the UK. The religious leader of a mosque in

Glasgow, risotto, expressed regret about his execution but also Tanveer

Ahmed himself was quite inspired, and we spoke to Mumtaz Khadri's

brother in Pakistan who said Tanveer Ahmed was in close contact with him

when you was in prison and even had dreams about him, saying that Mumtaz

Khadri had said he was chosen for a certain duty. According to Mumtaz

Khadri's brother who was also in touch with Tanveer Ahmed, Ahmed was

very much inspired by what Mumtaz Khadri did and subsequently went

ahead to Glasgow and kill Asad Shah. Thank you for joining us. Shaima

Kalil, speaking from Islamabad. Investigations are continuing

into a fatal crash in Argyll yesterday, in which two

young children died. A car skidded off the road

into a loch just north of Kilmelford It was here at Loch nan Druimnean,

on the outskirts of the small village of Kilmelford that the

tragedy occurred at around 4pm yesterday afternoon. A car skidded

off the road and into the water, and 36-year-old woman managed to free

herself. Was treated in hospital in Oban and later released. But two

toddlers remained trapped within the vehicle. Eyewitnesses on the scene

shortly afterwards said they could see no sign of the submerged car and

a full-scale emergency operation was then launched. We just noticed a lot

of emergency vehicles gumming up the hill and an hour or so later, a

helicopter turned up, did not seem to stay long. And then they shot the

road, the road was blocked by the police. -- shut the road. The

emergency services recover the car in the early hours of this morning

but unfortunately, the two children were dead. Local people say that

this stretch of road is notoriously dangerous and there have been

several accidents here in the past. Yesterday's events have started this

village community, whose population numbers less than 200. This

afternoon, police named the two children as Leia McCorrisken and her

brother Seth and issued a plea for anyone who may have witnessed the

events surrounding the accident to contact them as their investigations

into the crash continue. Craig Anderson, Reporting Scotland,

Kilmelford. Survivors of child abuse met the

Scottish Government today and John Swinney said the remit into the

inquiry into historic child abuse would be reconsidered and assured

them it will be independent of government. It comes after the

resignation of the inquiry's chair earlier this week. Lisa Summers

reports. Right from the start, a cloud of

controversy has hung over this enquiry by the greeting was civil as

John Swinney met some of the abuse survivors and campaigners today. It

is fair to say that bus far, they've not been impressed. This was billed

as the most extensive inquiry commissioned by the Scottish

Government but it could also prove to be one of the most costly. No

budget has been set, although the government says it does have a duty

to ensure it does not incur any unnecessary costs. Since then, the

government has become increasingly under pressure over concerns about

its scope, limited to children abused in residential care but not

in use groups or judges, for example. Questions of government

interference and the resignation of key players. I accept that we are at

a difficult period of the inquiry entirely. I've worked hard this

afternoon with the benefit of a long amount of time with the survivor

community, which irony welcome, to try to address those issues and I

will continue to work on that to get us to a stronger position in

relation to the progress of the enquiry. In the main, it seems the

Cabinet Secretary provided assurances during today's three-hour

meeting. Today was the first positive meeting I've attended with

the Scottish Government. The inquiry now has to basically get rebooted

and they are seriously looking at changing the remit, including the

terms of reference and where we go now. A commitment to review the

scope of the enquiry was cautiously welcomed. -- inquiry. It's

upsetting. I represent a group of former Quarriers were eight people

were convicted, including my own former Quarriers were eight people

abuse and we are still seeking justice. Survivors will meet John

Swinney again in the next three to four weeks as the government begins

the process of getting this troubled inquiry back on track. Lisa Summers,

Reporting Scotland, Edinburgh. Scottish Conservative leader,

Ruth Davidson, says she's backing Theresa May to be

the next Prime Minister. Conservative Party members

will choose between Mrs May and Andrea Leadsom to lead

their party, after David Cameron resigned following

the UK vote to leave Almost one in five Scots applying

to go to university is not The public spending watchdog,

Audit Scotland, says that while more people are applying,

more are also being turned down. Our education correspondent

Jamie McIvor is here. So Jamie, is it now more

difficult for Scots to get Certainly, Sally, the proportion of

applicants who don't get offered a place has gone up from 15% in 2010,

to 19% last year. But that isn't the whole is Tory. The number of places

overall has gone up in the past few years but the number of applications

has gone up even faster, so by implication, more applications are

going to be unsuccessful. This is one of the figures in a wide-ranging

health check of universities by the public spending watchdog, Audit

Scotland. It says universities are in good shape but they face a number

of issues going forward and crucial amongst those is just what happens

to make sure that there is a sustainable way of helping more from

disadvantaged areas get a place which of course is one of the

Scottish cot and's top priorities. Talking about big issues, this

report was written before the EU vote and universities are already

saying they are feeling the impact of that. Indeed, there are very big

worries in universities about the practical consequences of Brexit.

Universities say it is leading to instability and serious levels of

risk, not least when it comes to research funding. A significant

chunk of that comes from EU wide funding bodies. Whether the money

can be replicated or whether some means can be found of maintaining

these arrangements is going to be a big issue in the months and years

ahead. As for students from other parts of the EU, though, their

position does not change for now. The Scottish Goffman has made that

very clear. Thank you for joining us. -- Scottish Government.

Thousands of people are heading to the T In The Park music

festival in Perthshire, where music fans are busy setting up

Everyone hoping there is not going to be the same problems getting in

and out of the camp as there was last year. That's right, Sally. Last

year was the first time that T in the Park has held here at strath

Allen castle. Although the music side of things wept well, there was

chaos when people tried to leave on the final evening. Hundreds of

people were trapped for several hours, either if they were trying to

drive out or waiting to be picked up by family and friends. Well, a lot

of thought has gone into the organisation of this year's event.

The question is, will it be enough to make sure there is no repeat of

last year's scenes. 70,000-strong and looking forward to a weekend of

mud and music. Well, if they can beat the queues, first. This is the

23rd year of it. In the Park, Scotland's preeminent music

festival. But only the second time it has been held here in Srathallen

festival. But only the second time Castle in Perthshire. There were

serious problems last year. The traffic management plans didn't

work. It wasn't fit for purpose. Looking back with hindsight, the

first year in and communication could have been better. Those

returning this year are hoping for the best We are coming on the

Monday. The buses all came and they got jammed in. We ended up waiting

out here in the mud for about seven, eight hours. You have come back this

year Come back this year because of the other days. They were good. The

acts and atmospheres were good. It is worth coming to. Because you have

two entrances and different car parks it should be a lot better.

Shouldn't be a problem. The venue's new bus station is part of the

Shouldn't be a problem. The venue's solution. We had to create this from

a grass field that looks like the round about into a fully-functioning

almost like city centre bus station. Of course, it is not about buses, it

is about music and what the organisers call a party weekend,

like no other. Let's get all the sport

now, from Jane. Blustery conditions have made life

difficult for the players on the opening day of golf's

Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. Gusts of up to 35mph hampering some

of the world's best from scoring From the course near Inverness,

here's Phil Goodlad. Castle Stuart in the wind is a tough

owe Pope epted. Blustery swirling conditions makes playing here

anything but plain sailing. -- opponent.

This South Korean showed us he was more than up to the challenge.

Home favourite Mark Warren also went along well early on, before

eventually finishing on 1-over. Despite bogeying the last, Chile's

Aguilar was an early-club house leader in 3-over. A man well-dressed

for the occasion. It is really windy. You have to be able tow swing

the ball with several layers on you. It is not very comfortable for us.

It is playing long today. I hit a 2-iron and 4-iron and barely made it

in front of the green. If the wind is up, the other way, sometimes you

play five irons into the green. So striky conditions for the opening

morning here and with no Scot on the leaderboard, could Russell Knox

change that in the afternoon? The answer was yes. Shots like this

helping him birdie his opening two holes. Look at this. He says he has

been waiting years. Finding things less straight-forward, though,

five-time Major champion, Phil less straight-forward, though,

Mickelson. While it is fair to say not everybody is finding the

blustery conditions offputing, it has so far stopped anybody

dominating the leaderboard and with similar weather forecast for

tomorrow, that could become a familiar theme here at Castle

Stuart. Andy Murray's preparing to face

Tomas Berdych in the Wimbledon semifinal tomorrow afternoon,

and says he'll have to be at the top of his game if he wants

to make Sunday's final. 1.00pm today and already back on the

practice court. Well after 8 owe clockpm last night and a fab

five-setter against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was being settled by the

Scot. COMMENTATOR: Murray. What a return. Tomas Berdych now blocks

Andy Murray's path to a third Wimbledon final. A man he knows very

well. We have never played on grass before, though, but he has made the

final here, and beaten Djokovic and Federer on the grass and he's

obviously playing some good entennis this week. I have only seen a little

bit of his match in the fourth round against Vesely which he came through

in four sets. He is a big guy. Hits the ball hard. I will need to be on

my game, for sure. At 30, tomorrow's opponent is a year older than Andy

miles per houry. He is the world number 9 but was once ranked fourth.

-- Andy Murray. His form against Murray, played

four, lost four. He has to be aggressive and go for the shots. He

has been waiting for the chance to win a Grand Slam his whole tennis

life. When he has a chance like this, he used to be more careful. He

didn't go for the shots, he didn't risk it and I think he found that

this is not the way to win the big title.

For Andy Murray, it is a case of five down, two more to g as he

targets another Wimbledon win. -- two more to

G Kheredine

Idessane joins us now And Kherdine, no love lost

between these two, if last year's Australian Open was

anything to go by! Yes, it got Tatsy between them in

Melbourne last year, even in the stands, there were some verbals from

the future Mrs Murray, prompting Kim to wear that famous T-shirt -

explicit lyrics. I think there will be more decorum in the royal box.

Talk of the royals, the Duchess of Cambridge was here and our

wheelchair star Gordon Reid got to meet her and that inspired him to a

win today. He is through to the semifinals. He is in doubles action

tomorrow in that wheelchair event and be Andy Murray is in action, we

are expecting around about 4 owe clockpm. Thank you. And football

news: Aberdeen are in action

as we speak against Fola Esch of Luxemborg in the second leg

of their Europa League match. But Dons are not getting

things all their own way. Samir Hadji scoring just before half

time to give them a 1-0 Aberdeen still lead 3-2 on aggregate

though. And there will be more tennis

tomorrow night. Thank you very much. There's nothing unusual

about replacement buses But what about replacement trains

when there are no buses? That's what's happening this week

between two remote villages in the Southern Uplands and,

as Willie Johnston reports, Scotland's highest village,

Wanlockhead a mile away from its nearest neighbour, Headhill, people

travel between them for work and services but if the road is closed

for repairs, the detour is 50 miles. Rattling to the rescue, Clyde, a now

engaged locomotive which normally takes tourists from one village to

the other on summer weekends. It is takes tourists from one village to

about a mile-and-a-half in length. When they heard about the road

closure, the heritage railways volunteer operators stepped up to

the plate. We devised a timetable and recruited some volunteers from

the village as well. We have had a lot of passengers in the last couple

of days. It's been quite useful getting people that are commuting up

between the two villages. The seven daily round trips just the ticket

for passengers like Annie Gough I cook the breakfast in a hotel in

Ledhills, I need to get back to Wanlockhead to go to work at the Led

Mining Museum which is difficult when the road is closed. Heading the

other way is Margaret. For when the road is closed. Heading the

necessity, going to the doctors and to pick up prescriptions and things

like that. It will be used, yes and getting to work. To the museum, at

Wanlockhead, also. The weekday service will run only as long as the

road closure lasts and then it is back to weekends only. Some might

miss it. It gives you more time it play about on trains snoochl oh,

gosh, yes. That's the best bit, isn't it?

Let's see what we can expect from the weather.

Well, the beginning of the working week I thought the weather was going

to be changeable T stayed that way. We saw rain and dry weather. That

will be the case through the weekend. Here is one of our weather

will be the case through the watchers, who sent in this lovely

picture. 'S Khiam tour meteorologist. He will be 90 later

on this month. Happy birthday. As for as this evening is concerned,

fineshine to end the day for south and east but rain pushing in from

the Atlantic coming our way tonight. Gathering force across the West. It

will become persistent as it extends across the country, heavy bursts

anywhere but the main focus of anything heavier will be North

Argyll up towards Skye. Temperatures on the mild side around 10-14. A

fresher, strong south-westerly wind over the Western Isles and Northern

fresher, strong south-westerly wind Isles. A rather wet start early on

tomorrow, but quickly improving that. Rain pushes away into the

North Sea and cloud breaks up and we'll see brighter, sunny spells

coming through. One or two showers developing but the emphasis will be

on a lot of dry weather come the afternoon. For the Northern Isles,

some cloud but also some bright or sunny spells coming or going. We

could see 18 or Orkney up towards Caithness. We will see some cloud

lapping into the Atlantic on the westerly breeze towards western

coastal areas. More in the sunshine here during the day. 1 in the west.

The best of the sunshine in the east and highest temperatures, too,

widely reaching 20, even 21. We have had a lot of parents requiring about

it. In the Park. Not folks going there. Here is the forecast. A

general look. Dry warm and sunny to. Rain moving in tomorrow night. Rain

for a time on Saturday. Sunday showers but warm and winds will be

light. So a fine end to the day for Friday. Good spells of sunshine but

here is the weekend weather. This Atlantic low moves in tomorrow night

bringing outbreaks of rain and then we see this feature coming up into

the south, some sharp showers developing Saturday night. So it

the south, some sharp showers will wet across the northern half of

the country, that rain becoming confined to the far north-west where

it gets stuck. Brightening up else where. That's your forecast.