Overview
- Azzedine Mahmoudi, 46, admitted two counts of unlawful wounding, affray and two counts of possessing knives, receiving a two-year-six-month sentence with the weapons ordered forfeited.
- CCTV shown in court compiled about 13 minutes of the incident, depicting Mahmoudi chasing and slashing at people before surrendering to officers who deployed tasers.
- Two men were injured during the attack, including cuts to the head and arm for one victim and a hand injury to another who tried to help.
- Members of the public intervened to distract and contain the attacker, including martial arts coaches and Apprentice participant Sohail Chowdhary, whose actions were praised by police.
- The court heard Mahmoudi had longstanding mental health issues and had stopped taking prescribed medication, with his condition at the time described as psychotic.