A man who made death threats to congregants of two Manchester mosques received a 28-month prison sentence today (26 August) at Leeds Crown Court.
21-year-old Gabriel Levy, of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, admitted making threats to kill during withheld calls to two mosques in the Manchester area days after the antisemitic terror attack targeting worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on 2 October 2025.
Police had arrested Levy within hours of his menacing call to the Al-Sunnah Mosque in Cheetham Hill, Manchester on 4 October 2025 and, via a withheld number, had told those who answered: “I’m going to come to your mosque and kill you.”
The police investigation unearthed that Levy had made similar death threats to worshippers at the Iqra Mosque in Manchester, having called the mosque the same day and told a staff member who answered his call: “I am going to kill you, Muslim”.
Searches of Levy’s mobile phone revealed “Islamophobic and racist language, as well as hate speech,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
A successful request for a Hate Crime uplift from the CPS increased Levy’s prison sentence by ten months.
Responding to Levy’s jailing today, the CPS’s Aamir Sajad made clear: “No one has the right to make other people feel like their life is at risk just for doing their job.
“Gabriel Levy gave no thought to who was at the other end of the phone when he recklessly called two mosques to make these terrifying threats. He claimed that he had no real intention of causing any harm – but this means nothing to those on the receiving end of these types of illegal and intimidating communications.
“Death threats in any form have a severe impact on those who receive them, and we are grateful to the victims in this case for coming forward.
“Today’s sentencing shows that threats to kill and Islamophobic hate crime will always be treated extremely seriously by the CPS and we will take swift and decisive action when seeking these convictions.”