Schoolfriend wades in to save shopkeeper

A customer repeatedly stabbed a local shopkeeper before an old school friend ran over to save him, a court heard. Leon Scott, 41, launched into a ferocious knife attack after walking into Ley Street Food and Wines in Ilford, on November 27 last year, the Old Bailey heard. Scott had been a regular at the store for four years when he allegedly tried to murder shopkeeper Dhines Thangavelu. Fortunately David Burgess, a recruitment consultant who had known Mr Thangavelu from…