A butcher's assistant who stabbed his boss 51 times in an unprovoked attack before going on a machete rampage has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years.
Naeem Mehmood, 27, stabbed Parvaiz Iqbal in the freezer room of his butcher’s store and.
Naeem Mehmood, 27, stabbed Parvaiz Iqbal 51 times in the freezer room of his butcher’s store and supermarket.
When another employee, Saied Husseine, 44, discovered what was happening, Mehmood stabbed him in the stomach before picking up a butcher’s knife and running through the streets covered in blood - smashing car and shop windows on his way.
Mehmood was eventually arrested in a supermarket car park around ten minutes after the attack after a huge police operation was launched.
Another shop worker who came to his boss’s aid was stabbed in the stomach but survived the ordeal.
Prosecutor Peter Moulson QC described how, after the attack at the Bismallah Food Store, Mehmood went on a 10-minute rampage, smashing windows and threatening members of the public with a huge machete he picked up after leaving the murder weapon embedded in Mr Iqbal’s chest.
Mr Moulson said the defendant shouted 'Don’t come outside or I will gut you up' in Punjabi to strangers as passers-by fled in terror.
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