‘Cleaver terror in the West End’

An IT manager who armed himself with a meat cleaver in London’s West End causing terrified onlookers to ‘run for cover’ as he was spared jail. Assad Asghar, 33, was part of a group subjected to homophobic abuse in Chinatown on 6 April 2019. Southwark Crown Court heard a fight broke out with an unknown man and Asghar grabbed a road sign to use as a weapon. He then ran into the See Woo Asian supermarket and came out waving…