‘Wrong place, wrong time’ for Lebanese teen killed in UK drive-by shooting

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Fri, 2021-05-21 13:54

LONDON: Lebanese-born law student Aya Hachem, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Britain last year, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when she was shot dead amid a feud between local businesses, a court has heard.

Hachem, 19, was gunned down outside a supermarket in a drive-by shooting in the town of Blackburn in May last year. She died in hospital.

The shooting was the culmination of a long-running and steadily escalating dispute between the owners of two local tyre firms, Quickshine Tyres and RI Tyres, a jury has heard.

Eight people are currently on trial over Hachem’s killing, which prosecutors allege was the result of a plot to kill the owner of Quickshine Tyres. The trial is expected to last up to 10 weeks.

Hachem “was simply unlucky,” prosecutors told the court. “She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”