Humza Yousaf responds to Elon Musk over 2004 murder post on X
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Former first minister Humza Yousaf has responded to Elon Musk to say a Scots-Pakistani MP helped bring to justice the racially-motivated killers of a 15-year-old boy, more than 20 years ago. Glasgow schoolboy Kriss Donald was abducted and killed by an Asian gang led by Imran Shahid on March 15 2004.
Kriss was stabbed 13 times and set on fire while he was still alive on a quiet walkway behind Celtic FC’s training ground in the east end of the city. The assailants had taken him on a 200-mile journey to Dundee and back while the gang members attempted to find a house to take him to.
Mr Musk responded to a post on X to say he had never heard of the murder or subsequent trial and Mr Yousaf responded to tell him it was then-Glasgow Central MP Mohammed Sarwar, a Scots-Pakistani, who was integral in seeing the perpetrators were brought to justice.
The incident unfolded following an assault on Shahid at a nightclub the previous evening – although Kriss was not involved in the attack. Trial judge Lord Uist said Kriss had been targeted at random because he was white, describing the murder as “an abomination” which had “rightly shocked and appalled the public”.
A 20-year-old man who was not named for legal reasons was jailed for murder in December 2004 while Zahid Mohammed, 20, was sentenced to five years for assaulting and abducting Kriss. The three remaining suspects – ringleader Imran Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq – had fled to Pakistan after the killing.
