A UK court has sentenced a teenager, who repeatedly stabbed a Syrian refugee in a homeless hostel in Scotland, to seven years and nine months in jail for a racially-aggravated attempted murder, local media reported on Friday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th August, 2018) A UK court has sentenced a teenager, who repeatedly stabbed a Syrian refugee in a homeless hostel in Scotland, to seven years and nine months in jail for a racially-aggravated attempted murder, local media reported on Friday.
According to The Guardian newspaper, Sean Gorman, who was 17 at the time of the crime, previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder of 25-year-old Shabaz Ali, a refugee from Syria, whom he stabbed in the chest and stomach numerous times.
The two young men squabbled in a homeless hostel in Edinburgh in May over high noise levels with the victim reportedly standing up for his female cousin, the outlet said, adding that Gorman also pleaded guilty to a racial offense against a woman, reportedly Ali's cousin.
The newspaper also reported citing the judge, who passed the sentence, that the victim was still unable to work after the attack and required further surgery adding that the Ali's farther was satisfied with the judge's ruling.
"Shabazs father welcomes the significant sentence imposed today by [judge] Lord Woolman and the message sent out to violent racists like Sean Gorman," the lawyer of the victim's family was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
The lawyer also said that Ali turned to Edinburgh city council a few days before the incident saying that he did not feel safe at the hostel but to no avail, the outlet added.
