A 22-YEAR-OLD who stabbed a man and then hid in a London mosque has been found guilty of murder.
An Old Bailey jury found Kamal Hussain, of no fixed address, guilty of manslaughter, but acquitted him of murder, it was reported on Friday (25).
Another man, Yosef Ahmed, 18, was cleared of murder and manslaughter.
Hussain fled to London Central Mosque after stabbing 25-year-old Zahir Visiter on March 28. Hussain stabbed him four times and watched from a distance as members of the public rushed to help.
Visiter died in a hospital about an hour after he was fatally stabbed.
Giving evidence, Hussain claimed Visiter was the first to pull a lock knife questioning what he was doing on his estate. Hussain said he managed to wrestle the knife out of the victim’s hand, and said stabbing Visiter was an act of self defence.
Ahmed and Hussain said they ran away because they "panicked".
Giving evidence Ahmed claimed he had been in the area to buy cannabis and ran because he was “frightened and scared” when Hussain shouted: “There's two undies (undercover police) there, let's run.”
Ahmed spent the next few days with Hussain because he “had nowhere else to go”, the court heard.
Det Sgt Gary Royal said: "What exactly led to this brutal stabbing may never be known for sure.
"What can be said is that this appears to have been a planned and brutal attack and the wounds to Zahir were found to have been delivered with considerable force."
