A British court has sentenced a man to 11 years and three months in prison for stabbing an imam in an unjustified attack in a London mosque, according to “Russia Today” news network.
Daniel Horton, 30, earlier pleaded guilty to deliberately committing grievous bodily harm and possessing a sharp object in a public place after the attack on the London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park, north London, on February 20.
The Southwark court heard the victim, a 70-year-old named Raafat Makled, who said that he felt a “severe blow” to the right side of his neck the moment he was stabbed.
Horton’s witnesses were held until the police arrived, and after he was arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder, Horton told the police, “This is not a religious assault and it is not a racist assault.”
Moqalled later said that he had seen Horton before in the mosque, but only occasionally.
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