A person has been jailed for life with a minimal 32-year term for a collection of slasher assaults on strangers, ending with the random murder of a girl in south London.
Mohamed Nur, 34, was armed with a makeshift blade when he lower the throat of Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey, 31, in daylight in Brixton on 1 May 2023.
She was strolling in Stockwell Park Walk after going into central London to do some buying when Nur attacked her from behind. She died on the scene.
Two days earlier, he had slashed the faces of two ladies and a person in what the Old Bailey heard have been “unprovoked and random” assaults.
Ms Dogbey’s youthful sister Laura wept in courtroom as she learn a sufferer impression assertion, paying tribute to her “pure, harmless and loving sister” who she described as her “finest buddy and protector”.
She mentioned her large sister had inspired her along with her studying and writing and purchased her books however her murder had “killed all of us”.
“What phrases can I take advantage of to explain how damaged I’m?” she mentioned.
Her sister additionally described how she had not been in a position to sit her college exams, saying “irrespective of the place I’m, my thoughts takes me again to that horrific day”.
Judge Angela Rafferty KC instructed the courtroom had Nur not been arrested, she believed he would have attacked once more.
Nur beforehand admitted Ms Dogbey’s murder and having a blade constituted of scissors, in addition to one other weapon constituted of damaged glass, when he was arrested the next day.
He denied three counts of illegal wounding in relation to the opposite assaults, however was discovered responsible on 13 May following a trial.
Nur was not on the Old Bailey for sentencing and had additionally not attended any of his trial hearings.
Judge Rafferty KC mentioned she took his absence “very significantly” and would ship the sentence as if he have been there.
