Migrant killer ‘feared the judgement of God’ for looking at pictures of women

A police civilian worker said he thought he would die when he was stabbed 14 times by an Afghan lorry migrant who went onto knife a dog walker to death.

Binman Wayne Broadhurst, 49, died at the scene of the attack in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, west London, after he was stabbed 14 times to the neck, chest and side by Dawood Safi.

The 28-year-old migrant also attacked his landlord Shahzad Farrukh, 45, and a 14-year-old boy during the rampage on 27 October last year.

Mr Farrukh could have died but several neighbours, including one wielding a walking stick, rushed out to help him.

He was left with ‘life-changing injuries’ in the bloodbath while the boy, who cannot be named, has since been discharged from hospital after receiving knife injuries to his hands.

Pornography addict Safi later told psychiatrists he felt ‘guilty’ and ‘feared the judgement of God’ because he had ‘viewed naked images of women.’

Safi has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Broadhurst on grounds of diminished responsibility.

He appeared at Southwark Crown Court today via video-link from Broadmoor maximum security psychiatric hospital for the second day of his trial, and was aided by an Arabic interpreter.

In his video recorded interview Mr Farrukh said that when the door was opened he ‘saw a huge knife with a black handle…I can’t close the door.’

‘He then shouted. He said to me ‘what have you done with my family’. He attacked me with the knife. He came into the kitchen.’

‘In a few seconds he had done eight stabs, here, here, here.’

‘I saw blood everywhere. I didn’t realise I was stabbed. I knew he had put the knife there. But when I saw my blood psychologically I thought I’m gone.’

He said that Safi then attacked the 14-year-old boy.

‘The guy started jumping on him.

‘I realised that if I stay here I will pass out here. I ran outside.

‘I started to feel pain. I remember these guys surrounding me.’

Mr Farrukh said that he did not know what Safi was talking about when he asked him what he had done with his family.

‘I have no clue about his family. I have never seen his family, I don’t know who his family is.’

‘I thought he has either got drugs or I thought he is in a different thought zone, so I thought maybe he is going to kill me.’

The court has heard Safi arrived ‘concealed in a lorry’ as a refugee in 2020.

Safi was granted asylum in the UK in 2022 with leave to remain until 2027 and was working as a driver.

Earlier Jonathan Laidlaw, KC, prosecuting, said in the days leading up to the attacks Safi had suffered a collapse in his mental health.

‘The defendant, according to four psychiatrists who have examined him since October of last year, was in a psychotic state.

‘In other words, he had lost contact with reality and was unable to distinguish between what was real and what was not.

‘Because of the defendant’s psychotic state, he is not being tried for murdering the man who lost his life at the defendant’s hand.’

Safi has admitted wounding with intent causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Farrukh and assault occasioning actual bodily harm to the boy and the manslaughter of Mr Broadhurst on the basis of diminished responsibility.

He denies two counts of attempted murder.

In his video interview the 14-year-old boy said: ‘The guy kept pacing up and down the street. I saw someone, I heard he stabbed him.

‘He kept running up and down the street, he ran away…That’s it.’

The boy said that when he saw Mr Farrukh he ‘realised after two seconds that he had been stabbed multiple times.’

Asked what the knife looked like he said: ‘It was six inches, big, maybe a butcher’s knife. It looked like a butcher’s knife.’

He said that he then dialled 999.

‘They then asked which service I wanted. I said ambulance at first.’

Mr Farrukh’s neighbor Steven Rogers said in a witness statement: ‘[Safi] had a deranged look on his face. He looked like someone who was intent on killing someone else.

‘He was devoid of emotion. Every human emotion was gone.

‘He looked like someone who was detached from reality…I thought that this could go really bad.’

Mr Rogers said that he asked someone to get him a bat to keep Safi at bay.

‘Anything to keep him out of the garden,’ he said.

‘I didn’t want to turn my back on him. That’s when things go wrong fast.

‘The male with the knife started walking towards our garden gate, not fast or slow, but with purpose.

‘The look on his face suggested that he was going to finish what he started regardless of who was in his way.

‘I said ‘If you come inside the gate I will smash your skull in.

‘I think he understood…I wasn’t scared of him.’

Mr Rogers said he recognised Safi as he was staying at the house.

‘I had seen him come and go from the address,’ he said.

‘He’s a taxi driver. He just seemed like a quiet person.’

His sister Jessica Rogers said in her witness statement: ‘I swung a walking stick at him.

‘I was terrified to see someone show no emotion after stabbing another person, especially in front of a child.

‘His blank expression is something I cannot get out of my head.’

The trial continues.