Local MP issues statement on attack outside north Manchester synagogue

Thursday, 2 October 2025 11:44

By Ethan Davies, Local Democracy Reporter

The attack outside a north Manchester synagogue has ‘appalled’ the area’s MP, who dubbed it an attempt to ‘damage our very tolerant city’.

Armed police raced to the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue scene on Middleton Road in Crumpsall area at 9.31am, along with paramedics.

The mayor said emergency services were called ‘by members of the public, saying they had witnessed a car being driven to the public and one had been stabbed’.

It’s since been confirmed by GMP officers shot the male suspect at the scene at around 9.38am. Four members of the public have been injured, police added.

Graham Stringer, Labour MP for Blackley and Middleton South, has called for ‘Mancunians to come together’ in the wake of the incident.

He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “It’s a dreadful attack designed to damage the Jewish community and damage inter-faith and inter-community relationships. I know that Mancunians will come together to make sure that villains like this do not damage our very tolerant city.

“I know the synagogue well and I know the people in the synagogue. I have lived within a stone’s throw of that synagogue for most of my adult life and I think it’s appalling

“I know, like after the Manchester Arena attack, people will come together.”

In the wake of the incident, mayor Andy Burnham said the incident is ‘under as much control as possible’. He added: “The risks of further harm to the public are reduced but not removed.

“I have a significant role in reassuring all of our communities but particularly the Jewish community and have been living with a higher state of anxiety because of the times we live in.

“What I can say as police have the closest of relationships with the community security trust there to protect the community.

“We think of them and their families as they recover from this incident.”

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