UK launches public inquiry into killing of two Jewish men in 2025 Manchester synagogue attack

Britain's interior minister Shabana Mahmood on Monday announced a public inquiry into the deaths of two Jewish men who were killed during a terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester in October 2025.Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz were killed during the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue during Yom Kippur.Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, told police he was acting for Islamic State before officers shot him dead.Mahmood told lawmakers that a public inquiry "will ensure that all evidence can be heard, including any sensitive national security material that could not otherwise be fully heard."Mahmood noted that the Manchester attack was only one in a series of attacks targeting the UK's Jewish community over the past year that included the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, a failed attack on the Israeli Embassy, and multiple arsons.UK government increases police budget amid antisemitic attacksShe also added that, in the wake of these attacks, the UK government had increased police funding by £250 million."I know we cannot simply build higher walls around our Jewish community and expect them to live in fear," she said, "So we must root out the evil of antisemitism wherever it lurks in society."Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were mentioned as particular threats to UK Jewry."States like Iran are using proxies to conduct hostile activity here in Britain," she explained. "They pay criminals or exploit naive volunteers, attacking our country and its citizens while maintaining an air of plausible deniability."