‘I had a knife in a sock because I was going to hand it in to security’

A student accused of attacking another undergraduate at a university party said he was hiding a knife in his sock ‘because it wasn’t worth the risk of keeping it in a bag,’ a court heard. Idrees Choudhary, 23, assaulted Rutvick Pimpalkar because he ‘thought he was acting very suspicious’ at a party at University of Westminster accommodation on 22 January. Choudhary admitted to hitting Mr Pimpalkar to the back of the head causing him to stumble to the floor before…