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LONDON — Prosecutors were stopped in their tracks this week and left with no recourse to pursue the case any further, after a suspect in a recent stabbing incident in the United Kingdom pleaded Muslim.

Sources close to the case said authorities had been confident that the alleged perpetrator would be quickly convicted and sentenced for the violent crime, but were dismayed upon hearing that the suspect's legal counsel would be entering a "Muslim" plea.

"I'm afraid there's little that can be done at this point," said lead Crown Prosecutor Aleister Burlington. "We thought we had all the evidence needed to convict the suspect, but pleading ‘Muslim' is an airtight defense. Had we realized he was a Muslim, we would have never brought the charges in the first place.

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