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He had been in the country for just five days, and during that time 25 year old Pavlo Lapshyn, stabbed defenceless 82-year-old Birmingham pensioner Mohammed Saleem and plotted three explosions near mosques in the Black Country. He told police he wanted to "increase racial conflict" and said he was a "self-confessed racist" and only targeted his victims because they weren't "white like him." Lapshyn was jailed for forty years. In this extract Issan Raza who regularly walked home with Mr Saleem after attending the Green Lane Mosque in Small Heath talks to Â鶹Éç WM’s Arshia Riaz on Midlands Masala about the community’s reaction to the sentencing…