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Pavlo Lapshyn will appear in court today accused of murdering 75-year-old grandfather Mohammed Saleem in April this year.

Lapshyn, a Ukrainian who had been in the UK on a work placement, was detained last week by West Midlands Police as part of an investigation into two blasts near mosques in Walsall and Tipton.

After his arrest, evidence of a third blast was found near a mosque in Wolverhampton.

The postgraduate student was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of the murder of Mr Saleem, who was stabbed to death as he walked home alone from a mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham.

Lapshyn, 25, who continues to be quizzed about the blasts, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today charged with Mr Saleem’s murder.