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King Charles Makes Unannounced Visit to Golders Green to Meet Stabbing Victims

The visit underscores a wider security push after terror‑linked attacks on Jewish communities.

Overview

  • The monarch met victims Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Ben Baila, 76, also known as Norman Shine, at the Jewish Care center on Thursday and offered support to residents and first responders.
  • He thanked Shomrim volunteers credited with helping detain the suspect and spoke with Hatzola representatives after four of the charity’s ambulances were set on fire in March.
  • Police are treating the April 29 Golders Green stabbings as a suspected terror incident, and counter‑terror detectives continue a specialist investigation into motive and any links to earlier attacks.
  • Essa Suleiman, 45, remains remanded on three counts of attempted murder, including an alleged attack on Ishmail Hussein in Southwark before the two stabbings in Golders Green.
  • On Friday, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said Jewish Londoners are not currently safe, citing 11 counter‑terror investigations, 35 arrests, and extra officers deployed to protect Jewish areas.