Syrian asylum seeker jailed for 9 years after knife attacks | UK | News

A Syrian refugee was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment after stabbing two people while fleeing the police. 21-year-old Abdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed chased a man from the city center of Bournemouth before stabbing many times in daylight. Five months later, he stabbed a shop worker in Cardiff and left him with serious injuries.

Al-Ahmed was accused of intention and attack in order to have real physical damage, forgiveness, a poultry article and to have a class A drugs. Daily Mail Reports. It can be deported because it has been detained for more than a year – this is the threshold of automatically lifting from the country.

Judge Paul Hobson described the man as a danger and gave a long sentence to protect the people.

He said: “You made a very problematic start in your life. Your experiences in Syria were traumatic. I sympathize with this, but I should also pay attention to the security of the people.”

Al-Ahmed went to Bournemouth from Cardiff in July 2023, where he had a fight with another man on an hour.

At that time, he was 19 years old, and a group of friends chased the other man from the city center before stabbing him many times.

Then, in December 2023, Al-Ahmed tried to use a false banknote in a shop in Cardiff and was asked to leave. He refused by a staff using a baseball stick and was chased outside.

Then he called a group of asylum seekers and said to the court: “They besieged me like a package of dogs. They left me to die on the roadside. I was scared.”

According to the defense lawyer, Al-Ahmed came to England after he escaped from the war in Syria.

A psychiatric report said that Cardiff stab may have been affected by mental health problems, whereas Bournemouth stabbing was “threat -oriented”.