Golders Green stabber appears at London court, is remanded until May 15

The assailant in Wednesday’s terror stabbing of two Jewish men in London’s Golders Green appears in a London court, is charged with attempted murder and is remanded for two weeks.

Essa Suleiman, 45, appears at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court and is charged with two counts of the attempted murder of 34-year-old Shloime Rand and 76-year-old Moshe Shine – named in the charges as Norman Shine – and possession of a bladed article in relation to the attack.

Essa Suleiman, originally from Burco and reportedly a close relative of Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Cirro, has been accused of carrying out a terrorist attack against civilians of Israeli origin in north London.

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Suleiman, a British national who was born in Somalia, is also charged with attempted murder in relation to a separate incident earlier on the same day in south London.

He appears in the dock wearing a grey tracksuit, with prosecutor Emma Harraway saying Suleiman attacked a former friend in south London on Wednesday morning before carrying out the attack in north London later that day.

Suleiman is remanded in custody and will appear at London’s Old Bailey court on May 15.