Actor who played Somali pirate in Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Hanks is jailed for brutal gang attack — manchestereveningnews.co.uk

An actor who played a Somali pirate in a Hollywood blockbuster led a gang who battered a man so severely he suffered a brain haemorrhage. Mohammed Abdi had a minor role in the 2013 Tom Hanks movie Captain Phillips - an action film the sentencing judge said he had seen ‘more than once’. But away from the cameras Abdi was part of a hotheaded mob who ambushed rivals as they were coming out of south Manchester takeaways.

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