Lapshyn attempted three bombings on local mosques, targeting Friday lunchtimes as they are the services with highest attendance. The first was laid outside a mosque in Walsall on 21 June 2013, and police investigations led to 40 homes being evacuated. The second was laid outside Wolverhampton Central Mosque on 28 June, but not reported until after the other two because police failed to recognise that a bomb had caused debris on a traffic island near the building until Lapshyn's arrest. Officers were called to the scene after it had detonated on Friday 28 June, but they were not specialists and did not realise the significance of the type of debris. The third bomb was placed in Tipton on 12 July and went off one hour after prayers ended, with no-one injured, which coincided with the funeral of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was killed by Islamic extremists in an attack at Woolwich, London.