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Uxbridge Knife Attack: Defendant Admits Two Stabbings as Murder Charge Awaits Plea

Psychiatrists found him fit to face a July trial.

Overview

  • Safi Dawood, 23, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Monday to grievous bodily harm against his landlord, actual bodily harm against a 14-year-old boy, and possessing an offensive weapon.
  • No plea was taken on the alleged murder of dog walker Wayne Broadhurst, who died at the scene on October 27 in Midhurst Gardens in Uxbridge.
  • Dawood denied two counts of attempted murder connected to the landlord and the teenager.
  • The court set a case management hearing for June 2 and listed the trial for July 13, and he appeared by video link from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
  • Home Office records show Dawood entered the UK in a lorry in 2020 and received asylum in 2022.