Gabriel Levy, 21, has been jailed for making death threats to two mosques in Manchester days after the Heaton Park synagogue terror attack. He was sentenced to 28 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to making threats to kill.
Threatening phone calls
Levy made an anonymous phone call to the Al-Sunnah Mosque in Cheetham Hill on the afternoon of October 4, 2025, using a withheld number. He told the call receiver: "I'm going to come to your mosque and kill you."
Police went to his home in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, just a few hours later and seized his mobile device. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it then emerged that a second threatening phone call was made.
Second call and motivation
Levy, who is Jewish, called the Iqra Mosque in Longsight on the same day and told a member of staff: "I am going to kill you Muslim".
In a statement, the CPS said he admitted to being angry after watching news coverage of the October 2 synagogue attack, in which two men were killed at Heaton Park Hebrew Synagogue in Crumpsall.
Hate speech uncovered
The CPS said 'concerning messages' featuring Islamophobic and racist language, as well as hate speech, were also uncovered on his phone.
Aamir Sajad, from the CPS, said after the sentencing hearing: "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."
