Accused told cops: 'I killed someone'

Sudanese man, 30, on murder bid charge » Judge refuses bail & issues disorder warning

- BY ALAN ERWIN

A MAN accused of a violent knife attack in Belfast allegedly told police, “ I killed someone, I don’t know if they are dead”, a court heard yesterday.

Sudanese national Hadi Alodid allegedly inflicted deep cuts to the victim's head, face and back during the violent knife attack on Monday night, police disclosed. The victim has lost one eye and suffered severe damage to the other.

The 30-year-old asylum seeker was remanded in custody charged with attempted murder and possessing a bladed article in public. He faces a further count of threatening to kill a female NHS radiographer.

Alodid, with an address at Duncairn Avenue in the city, was refused bail at Belfast Magistrates Court and remanded in custody until next month.

Police arrested him after they called to the scene of the stabbing on Kinnaird Avenue.

The victim, aged in his forties, remains in hospital receiving treatment for what has been described as life-changing injuries.

Video footage circulated widely online showed members of the public intervening in a bid to stop the attack. One of those who went to his aid struck the assailant with a hurling stick before PSNI officers arrived.

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