A man who made death threats to two mosques has been jailed today.

Gabriel Levy, 21, of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and has been sentenced to 28 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court.

The defendant made an anonymous phone call to the Al-Sunnah Mosque in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, on the afternoon of 4 October 2025.

Using a withheld number, he told the call receiver: “I’m going to come to your mosque and kill you” during the chilling encounter.

Police attended his address in Wakefield just a few hours after the initial call and immediately seized his mobile device.

During his arrest, Levy, who is Jewish, admitted he made the call due to being angry over what he recently saw in the news.

He claimed it was in response to the Manchester synagogue attack two days earlier, when a man drove a car into pedestrians before stabbing worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Two people were killed during the incident.

During follow-up investigations, it later came to light that Levy had made another threatening phone call.

On October 4, he made a call to the Iqra Mosque in Manchester where he told a staff member: "I am going to kill you Muslim".

Concerning messages were uncovered on his phone which included Islamophobic and racist language, as well as hate speech.

The CPS worked closely with West Yorkshire Police to secure a conviction in this case, extensively reviewing the evidence which led them to make charges.

CPS lawyers also applied for an increase in sentencing, known as a Hate Crime uplift, which has resulted in Levy having 10 months added to his prison sentence.

Aamir Sajad, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “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.”