Muslim commuter tried to protect wife from deranged knifeman

A rail passenger desperately tried to protect his burka-wearing wife as he was repeatedly stabbed by a knifeman screaming ‘kill the Muslims’, a court heard. Muhammed Aksar Ali was travelling home after visiting the mosque when 38 year-old Adrian Brown stormed on to the overground train in east London. He said in a statement read to jurors how he heard shouts of ‘looking for Muslims’ and ‘kill the Muslims’ as Brown moved towards them. ‘My wife said to keep quiet…