FOUR MEN ADMIT GOLDERS GREEN AMBULANCE ATTACK- Charity vehicles set ablaze in targeted attack against Jewish community, prosecutors say
Four men have pleaded guilty to destroying four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack causing £1m of damage. Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, Judex Atshatshi, and Saif Ali, both aged 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of destroying or damaging property and being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.
Atshatshi, Khan and Iqbal entered their pleas by video-link from Wandsworth and Pentonville jails, with Ali in the dock at the Old Bailey.
The charges relate to the attack on ambulances in Golders Green, north London, in the early hours of March 23.
Three of the defendants were said to have set fire to the fully stocked vehicles, while a fourth waited in a blue Toyota Avensis.
The resulting blaze caused gas canisters inside the ambulances to explode, and damaged nearby flats and a synagogue.
The ambulances belonged to Hatzola, a volunteer-led ambulance service, and were said to cost between £240,000 and £250,000 each.
