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Tube knife attacker guilty of attempted murder | |
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A man who attacked Tube passengers with knife at Leytonstone station in east London has been found guilty of attempted murder. | |
Muhiddin Mire, 30, injured musician Lyle Zimmerman, 56, in the station's ticket hall last December. | |
Somali-born Mire admitted the attack but denied attempted murder. | |
Mr Zimmerman suffered "a deep and ragged wound" to his neck and his windpipe was exposed, the Old Bailey jury heard. | |
Mire, of Sansom Road, Leytonstone, threatened four other travellers as he ran amok through the station. | |
The minicab driver had already admitted four counts of attempted wounding and an alternative count of wounding with intent to cause Mr Zimmerman grievous bodily harm. | |
The attack was caught on CCTV and mobile phone footage taken by a passer-by who carried on filming even as Mire lunged at him with his knife. | |
Mire claimed he was carrying out the attack for "my Syrian brothers", prompting one onlooker shout: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv". | |
Police officers shot Mire with a Taser and arrested him. |