A man who tried to cut the throat of a passenger at a tube station was motivated by revenge, and told passers-by: “This is for my Syrian brothers. About two weeks before the attack, Mire started dressing in traditional Muslim clothing rather than his normal jeans and a T-shirt, the court heard. Mire returned to the tube station, where he attempted to wound a further three passengers, before the police arrived and were able to detain him with the use of a Taser. Zimmerman, who survived the assault but suffered three large lacerations to his throat, told police he felt he was being attacked by “a crazy person”. Rees told the jury of eight women and four men that Mire’s assault on Zimmerman, a musician, had been a “brutal attack on a wholly innocent tube passenger”.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2016 17:06 UTC