Geila Ibram: Habib Shah Shamel passed existence sentence over homicide

A person has been given a existence sentence after pleading in charge to murdering a girl within the Republic of Ireland greater than two years in the past.

Geila Ibram, who was once 27 and in the beginning from Romania, was once stabbed 5 occasions at her rental in Limerick town on 4 April 2023.

28-year-old Habib Shah Shamel gave the impression within the dock of Belfast Crown Court from custody to be officially arraigned on two fees.

When the price of murdering Ms Ibram was once put to him in court docket, Shamel, an Afghani nationwide previously of Cecil Street in Limerick, answered thru an interpreter: “I’m in charge”.

Shamel had arranged by text to meet Ms Ibram for sex, senior prosecutor David McDowell KC told the court.

“He arrived on the flat and paid her €100. She gave the cash to a colleague,” he stated.

Mr McDowell stated that “several seconds later this colleague heard screams and it was apparent he had stabbed Ms Ibram”.

“The fatal injury was to the chest which went through her lungs and entered her heart. Death was as a result of blood loss due to multiple stab wounds,” he stated.

Mr McDowell stated the “fact that he stabbed” Ms Ibram inside of her inside of seconds of assembly her “invites the obvious inference that he came there to kill her”.

Shamel fled the scene and went to Dublin earlier than heading to Belfast by way of bus.

He was once stopped by means of the PSNI in a automobile at the Malone Road in south Belfast simply earlier than 15:30 on 6 April 2023.

During interviews with police, Shamel stated he had long gone to the escort to “satisfy his sexual needs” because of something he had viewed online.

When he was arrested, the PSNI seized a rucksack. They found found a notebook which contained a handwritten letter to Shamel’s mother in which he expressed a desire to “sacrifice his existence to Allah”.

The bag additionally contained a USB stick which had alleged terrorist-related movies of executions, dismemberment, encouragement to enhance Jihad, directions on the right way to assemble and detonate an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), the court docket heard.

Mr McDowell stated there have been additionally movies of suicide bombers.

When the price of possessing a “document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, namely files within a USB”, Shamel replied: “It’s not that i am in charge.”

The court docket heard an ordeal date have been set for 8 September 2025. It is anticipated to closing two weeks.

Defence barrister Chris Sherrard stated he could be in search of skilled witnesses as rebuttal to 2 prosecution professionals who’ve made reviews at the contents of the USB stick.

Following his in charge plea to murdering Ms Ibram, Mr Justice O’Hara advised the defendant: “Mr Shamel, since you have pleaded guilty to the murder of Ms Ibram in April 2023 I must now impose on you a sentence of life imprisonment.”

The pass judgement on stated there might be a next listening to “at which I will set the number of years which you must serve before your release can be considered”.

“However number of years that will be, you will serve a very long period of time in prison before consideration of your release ever comes around.”

The judge postponed the life sentence tariff hearing until after the September trial.

He added that he would review the case of possessing documents likely to be of use to terrorists in three weeks time.

Mr Shamel was once charged underneath the Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975, which permits the PSNI to prosecute in Northern Ireland if a suspect has fled from a distinct jurisdiction.