David Lammy has been heckled by Palestinian protesters at a vigil for the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack. Earlier, Greater Manchester Police said one of two people killed in yesterday’s synagogue attack was mistakenly shot by officers during the response. Follow live.
Friday 3 October 2025 15:41, UK
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When David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, is announced as the next speaker at the vigil, the audience starts booing.
Shouts of “shame on you” can be heard as well.
At this point, Adlestone, who spoke before Lammy, intervenes: “All right, we’ve heard enough,” he says.
“We know how you feel. I know how I feel – let’s give the time for our deputy Prime Minister to address us.”
Next up on stage at the vigil is Mark Adlestone, chair of the Jewish Representative Council in Greater Manchester.
“No more words, we demand action,” Adlestone says, citing a poster held up at the vigil.
“There is so much more that needs to be done, if the deaths of these two poor souls is to mean anything.”
One such reaction would be “to stop the Palestinian marches being a glorification of the death of Jews as it was yesterday”, Adlestone says.
“On the day of those two deaths, now half of the marchers are certainly marching for humanitarian reasons, but half are not,” he adds.
The vigil near the synagogue attack in Crumpsall is now under way.
Rabbi Daniel Walker, the rabbi of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, has led several prayers as the first speaker.
Referring to Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, who were both killed in the attack yesterday, Walker describes them as “two truly wonderful, special men, whose lives were truly snatched from them”.
He then invites the crowd to join in a moment of silence for the victims.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy are among those joining the rabbi at the vigil.
A vigil is about to get under way after yesterday’s attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall.
The synagogue was the target of the attack yesterday, with two people killed and three more injured.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham are among those attending.
You can watch live footage of the vigil at the top of this page.
One of Adrian Daulby’s neighbours has paid tribute to the 53-year-old, telling Sky News he considered him a friend.
Waqas Hussain, who wanted to remain anonymous on camera, said Daulby had lived next to him for 20 years. The pair bonded over their shared love of animals.
“He used to love nature, love his plants, animals – I used to let my chickens into his garden,” Hussain said. 
“He’s the one who motivated me into making a YouTube channel for my chickens.”
He adds: “We’ve had such a good relationship with each other, where he’s not a neighbour, he’s more a friend.” 
Hussain says the friendship “meant a lot… not just to me but my family and the whole neighbourhood”.
Daulby was popular with local kids in particular – he would get them gifts and play with water guns, his neighbour says.
Daulby was ’debating’ synagogue attendance
According to Hussain, Daulby had been through a very difficult time with illness and family bereavement, which is when he started to connect more to the synagogue. 
“I actually spoke to him on Tuesday and… he was debating whether or not he was going to go to the synagogue,” Hussain says.
When he found out about the attack, he messaged Daulby and tried to call him, but didn’t hear back, which left him “really worried”.
Hussain finds Daulby’s death hard to accept. 
“We just can’t get our head around that our neighbour – our friend – is not going to come back,” he says.
Sir Ephraim Mirvis also tells our north of England correspondent that he was not surprised by the synagogue attack yesterday.
“This is the day that we feared would come but deep down we knew it was inevitable, given the deep tone of Jew hatred on the streets of this country, on university campuses, in social media, in some of the media,” the chief rabbi says.
“A lot of the Jew hate has gone by unchecked, and it was only a matter of time. “
Mirvis says what he calls the “unjust demonisation of Israel” spills over and contributes to an anti-Jewish tone in the UK while also encouraging extremism, and warns that “all of our Western civilisation right now is on the frontline”.
Chief rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has named two of the people injured in the synagogue attack.
Three people remain in hospital after suffering “a variety of serious injuries”, police previously said.
In a post shared on X, Mirvis says: “We deeply mourn the tragic loss of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, who were murdered in the horrific Yom Kippur terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester.” 
The chief rabbi adds: “This morning, Valerie and I visited three wonderful people who were seriously injured in the attack.
“Please pray for Yehonoson Zalman ben Shaina Gittel, Anshel Yitzchak ben Malka and one other person, whose name has not yet been made public.”
The chief rabbi shared the pair’s Hebrew names, while confirming they are also known as Yoni Finlay and Andrew Franks.
 Chief rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has just been speaking to Sky News.
In an interview with our north of England correspondent Katerina Vittozzi, Mirvis says he has met with hundreds of members of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue earlier today.
“What an amazing community. The resilience here is terrific – the tenacity, the strength of the of resolve,” he says. 
“But obviously that accompanies deep pain and anguish.”
Mirvis says there is fear and “nervousness” among Jewish communities in the UK, but backed the community in Manchester to “get through this dark period successfully”.
“We pray for the healing of those injured and also the healing of the brokenhearted, and that includes many Jewish people across this country and many citizens across this country who recognise that an attack on the Jews of the UK is an attack on the values of our society,” he adds.
You can watch the interview below:
Zach Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, paid tribute to the Jewish community affected by yesterday’s attack during his conference speech in Bournemouth a short while ago.
“As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester, I feel this deeply and my heart is with our community more widely,” Polanski told delegates, referring to the attack.
He then went on to also denounce “mass slaughter in Palestine”, however, calling for the UK government to “stop selling arms to Israel”.
As we reported earlier (at 13.20), Polanski told Sky today that the home secretary’s criticism of Palestine Action protests held after the attack was “deeply irresponsible”.
We now have some more pictures of Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the Greater Manchester Police headquarters earlier, where he praised the emergency services’ response to the attack.
He was accompanied by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. 
Notably, the pictures show Starmer and Burnham kept far apart after Burnham more or less overtly pitched himself as Starmer’s successor as prime minister last week.
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