A person was killed and two others critically injured after the assault in October final 12 months.
Court docket artist sketch by Elizabeth Prepare dinner of Safi Dawood being led into court docket (Picture: PA)
An Afghan nationwide accused of murdering a canine walker in a knife assault might by no means be match to face trial, a court docket has heard. Safi Dawood, 22, is charged with murdering Wayne Broadhurst in addition to two counts of tried homicide in relation to the incident in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge.
The person appeared in Southwark Crown Court docket by way of videolink from Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire within the 15 minute listening to as a prosecutor instructed how he had been assessed by a psychiatrist, who concluded he was not at the moment “match to plead or stand trial”. Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC stated: “(The psychiatrist) has not indicated any timeframe of how lengthy the defendant will stay unfit, if he’s prone to recuperate and issues of that nature so we have no idea if the defendant is prone to develop into match”.
Wayne Broadhurst was killed within the assault (Picture: PA)
It’s alleged that Mr Dawood was “working amok” with a big knife throughout the assault which noticed Mr Broadhurst stabbed 14 instances.
A earlier listening to was instructed that Mr Dawood is an Afghan refugee with go away to stay within the UK till 2027.
He had allegedly been as a consequence of go away his lodging in Uxbridge in three days when he’s accused of launching a knife assault on October 27.
That day, his landlord Shahzad Farrukh, 45, had gone to the annex the place he was residing and located him allegedly armed with a big knife.
Mr Farrukh ran out of the home to hunt help from neighbours in Midhurst Gardens, the court docket coronary heart.
He was left with “life-changing accidents” whereas a 14-year-old boy, who can’t be named, has since been discharged from hospital after receiving knife accidents to his arms.
A provisional trial date has been listed for July (Picture: Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
Ms Heer added in a earlier listening to: “The police have been referred to as and arrived on the scene quickly afterwards the place they discovered Mr Broadhurst mendacity injured on the street and regardless of the most effective efforts of emergency medical companies they have been unable to save lots of his life and his life was pronounced extinct simply earlier than 5.45pm.”
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The Dwelling Workplace has confirmed Mr Dawood entered the UK clandestinely by way of lorry in 2020. He was granted asylum and go away to stay in 2022.
A provisional trial date has been listed for July, lasting as much as three weeks.
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