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This is the moment a man deliberately drove his car into a theatre during a busy rush hour. Richard Kelly, 47, drove his Ford Puma into Darlington Hippodrome at high speed on 7 March. The incident was captured on CCTV and shows his car narrowly missing other vehicles and pedestrians as it careered across Parkgate. Kelly, who had not been wearing a seatbelt and smelled strongly of alcohol, was helped out of the car and taken to hospital suffering from broken ribs. Nobody else was injured. He was charged with dangerous driving and was sentenced to 12 months in prison when he appeared at Teeside Crown Court on 1 May.
A Moroccan man who stabbed a passerby to death in the street in northeast England has been found guilty of murder on Thursday. According to prosecutors, Ahmed Alid, 45, who had sought asylum in Britain, killed his 70-year-old victim after approaching him from behind on a road in Hartlepool in the early hours of October 15 last year. According to Reuters, he had earlier attacked his housemate with two knives.
A Moroccan man who stabbed to death a passer-by in the street in northeast England in what he later told police was revenge for Israeli action in Gaza was found guilty of murder on Thursday. .
Alid had first used two knives to attack his sleeping housemate, to whom became aggressive after learning of his conversion to Christianity, stabbing him six times while shouting "Allahu Akbar."