{"id":423940,"date":"2026-02-13T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423940\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:10:07","slug":"the-former-hotel-entertainer-who-plotted-deadly-gun-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423940\/","title":{"rendered":"The former hotel entertainer who plotted deadly gun attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saadoui, born in Gaafour, in north-western Tunisia, was about four when his family moved to Sousse, which is near to the scene of a 2015 gun attack in Port El Kantaoui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A gunman targeting a hotel killed 38 people, including 30 Britons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old, who is understood to hold UK citizenship, was convicted of preparing acts of terrorism between December 2023 and May 2024 alongside Amar Hussein. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq8gv2327y7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amar Husein has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 26 years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saadoui&#8217;s brother Bilel, 36, was found guilty of failing to disclose information about the plans and has been jailed for six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bilel Saadoui also worked in a hotel in Sousse and he too went on to marry an English tourist, a widowed hairdresser on holiday with her two young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They met in 2010 and started a relationship a year later before getting married in November 2014 and moving to Hindley, Wigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2020 he had worked as a casual worker at Pound Bargains in Market Street, Hindley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saadoui, born in Gaafour, in north-western Tunisia, was about four when his family moved to Sousse, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-423940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}