Pavlo Lapshyn Jailed For Minimum Of 40 Years A Ukrainian white supremacist who murdered a grandfather and bombed three mosques in the Midlands has been sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail. Student Pavlo Lapshyn was told he would not be eligible for release for four decades despite his guilty plea, after a judge described his crimes as "abhorrent." The family of 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem, who was stabbed to death by Lapshyn in Small Heath, Birmingham, said the sentence could "never be enough," adding: "He took away the life of a beloved person." Lapshyn, 25, began his racist campaign just five days after arriving in the UK in April this year. Granddad Mohammed Saleem, who was murdered by racist Pavlo Lapshyn After killing Mr Saleem, he then went on to launch three attacks on mosques in the Black Country, bringing terror to Muslim communities. During their investigation, police found dozens of videos and hundreds of images of chemicals, firearms and bomb parts inside his office. One clip showed him practising for the attacks by blowing up a tree in a forest in Ukraine. Before sentencing him at the Old Bailey, judge Mr Justice Sweeney told Lapshyn he clearly held white supremacist views and racial hatred. Nails were used in the bomb Lapshyn planted near a mosque in Tipton The judge said: "You were motivated to commit the offences by religious and racial hatred. You were clearly planning to plant and detonate more devices in the hope that you would ignite racial conflict and cause Muslims to leave the area where you were living. Such views, hatred and motivation are abhorrent to all right thinking people and have no place whatsoever in our multi-faith and multi-cultural society. Lapshyn had won a work placement contest and was employed at a software firm in Birmingham but he used the months after his arrival to orchestrate a hate campaign. Lapshyn carries a homemade bomb towards a mosque in Walsall Lapshyn put together a home-made bomb that he hid in a child's lunchbox and left outside Walsall's Aisha Mosque on June 21. Seven days later he detonated a device close to Wolverhampton Central Mosque. On July 12 he used a deadly nail bomb next to the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton, near Wolverhampton. Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards, from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "We found part-made devices in Lapshyn's room, plus chemicals and bomb-making equipment, so it is clear he planned to place further devices with the intention of killing or maiming innocent members of the public. After planting the Walsall bomb, Lapshyn stopped to buy a bottle of wine All three of the devices he detonated were powerful but his final attack in Tipton was the first to feature shrapnel and nails. He placed this near the mosque's car-park with the intention of hitting worshippers as they arrived for prayers. Thankfully the service had been put back an hour so the mosque was largely deserted when the bomb went off. Lapshyn was caught after he was recognised by a member of the public from CCTV pictures that were distributed in the media. When he was interviewed by police, Lapshyn said he was acting alone and was not part of any wider group. During the sentencing, Lapshyn showed no emotion, even while the judge read out a harrowing victim impact statement from Mr Saleem's family. The hearing was extended by half an hour after a suspicious package was discovered in the courtroom where Lapshyn was due to be sentenced.