Metropolitan PoliceA teenager has been sentenced to 18 years of detention after carrying out a “cruel” zombie knife attack at Notting Hill Carnival last year.
Rumari Tut, a 19-year-old Rumari of Walthmsto in North-East London, stabbed 18-year-old Kamani Spooner with 12in (30 cm)-clong weapon on the evening of 26 August 2024.
He was after two weeks of trial at Old Belly Found guilty of attempt to murderFirst blamed for the possession of a bladed article.
While sentenced to him, Judge Judy Khan Casey said it was “cruel and completely unfair attack” and that there could be no justification for carrying a knife of that nature on crowded roads, still low for carnival.
Judge Khan said that this was not the first time Tit traveled to an incident -armed incident, and used it on the occasion for “destructive effects”.
“This was a particularly serious crime at the center of Europe’s largest street festival,” he said.
The judge quoted a police statement as saying that every knife -related crime had a significant impact on the victim and “widespread fear and anxiety within the community” arose.
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The trial heard that Tit opened the sliced victim’s stomach with a zombie knife and four of the five stabs were fatal to four people.
The prosecution said that there was no evidence to suggest that the victims and defendants knew each other.
The attack took place on a summer evening in the Canal Way, Ladbrock Grove in the daylight, and was seen by a police officer, who saw the defendant excited and arguing with another man.
The officer then saw the defendant reaching his waistband and “drowned his knife towards a group of people”.
The Tuit ran away and tried to settle the weapon by throwing it on the ground, but it was recovered by the police.
After spending a month in the hospital, the victim was able to make a statement to the police.
Mr. Spooner said that he remembered towards the end of the carnival, he saw the people around him fighting and throwing punches, before he was killed in the back.
Then he looked down to see that his intestines were hanging out and he had to put his hand on him and had to run away.
‘Disadvantage and crisis’
Hearing the sentence, prosecutor Mark Paltanghi said that the defendant was also arrested in 2023 in Notting Hill Carnival in a knife.
On that occasion, the Tuit joined an argument with a member of the public who was running his dog and produced a large Rambo knife and “rotated it back and forth”, but was detained by police officers.
He was convicted of the crime in June last year and a community order was still there when the murder was attempted by the court.
In the barrister of the mitigation Tut, Sheryl Nvosu stated that the defendant is “really sorry for the injury, loss and crisis”.
He said that the defendant was participating in the carnival with relatives and friends and “defensive” to the knife, he said.
The Tit of Sadherland Road, Walthamsto was given a concurrent sentence of one year for the capture of a bladed article.
