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The silver Volkswagen Polo where Abdul Deghayes was found injured in the passenger seat, near St Joseph’s Church in Brighton.
The VW Polo where Abdul Deghayes was found injured in the passenger seat, near St Joseph’s Church, Brighton. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
The VW Polo where Abdul Deghayes was found injured in the passenger seat, near St Joseph’s Church, Brighton. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Man charged with murder of Islamists’ brother in Brighton

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Daniel Macleod from south London was charged after fatal attack on Abdul Deghayes, 22

Police have charged a man with the murder of a brother of two British teenagers killed fighting for Islamists in Syria.

Abdul Deghayes, 22, from Brighton, died on Sunday after being attacked in a car that crashed in Brighton.

Daniel Macleod, 36, of Lambeth, south London, was charged with his murder after he was arrested at an address in Crawley in the early hours of Wednesday. He will appear before magistrates in Brighton on Friday.

The victim was found with a “number of stab wounds” in the passenger seat of a silver Volkswagen Polo just before 9.30pm on Saturday and died hours later, officers said.

His father, Abubaker Deghayes, said he was a “cheerful guy” who was “very popular with his friends”.

Abdul Deghayes, who was jailed in 2017 for drug dealing, is the twin brother of Abdullah who was killed fighting in Syria in 2016 aged 18.

Their brother Jaffar, 17, was killed in 2014 while trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s government.

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