London crime: Man who killed total stranger in 'ferocious' knife attack on Oxford Street stopped by

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He was beaten by two great Samaritans with their skateboards who attempted to stop the lethal assault

The man was wounded in the bustling road

A joyrider killed a total outsider in a 'savage' blade assault on London's bustling Oxford Road,

a court has heard. Tedi Fanta, 27, supposedly waved a cutting edge and hopped onto 60-year-old Stephen Dempsey from behind not long before 8pm on July 1, 2021.

Two passing skateboarders jumped right into it and hit the litigant with their sheets in a bid to incapacitate him

, The Old Bailey was told. They then assisted with controlling the aggressor until equipped police showed up

while different individuals from the public kept an eye on the person in question, members of the jury heard.

At the point when police showed up, the litigant was talking in an 'unintelligible way

' and had a head injury from a blow from a skateboard which was really taken a look at in medical clinic.

Stephen had experienced four blade wounds and kicked the bucket in clinic sometime thereafter from a cut to the chest.

Attendants were shown realistic CCTV film of the assault outside the Microsoft store.

Examiner Caroline Carberry KC said it was a 'excited and lethal assault'.

She let members of the jury know there was no question Fanta was the individual who went after Stephen. She said: "

He is seen doing a fierce, irregular and unmerited assault on a vulnerable and clueless individual from people in general.

"His casualty might have been anybody who was in closeness to him over the span of that day in Focal London. Unfortunately for Stephen Dempsey and his family it was him."

Early that day, Fanta had supposedly furnished himself and boarded a London-bound train from Swansea in south Ridges,

where he was residing at that point. His Extraordinary Western Railroad train showed up into Paddington Station at not long before 9am.

Soon after 2pm, the litigant, wearing battle pants and a red top, turned up at the Ethiopian International safe haven

on Kensington Street prior to advancing toward Oxford Road at around 4.40pm.

Ms Carberry said: "He was caught on CCTV remaining external the Microsoft store at 7.58pm.

As Mr Dempsey strolled past the Microsoft store and the litigant, the respondent displayed a blade from his pocket, ventured forward towards Mr

Dempsey and gone after him from behind with the blade. The assault started on the asphalt yet poured out onto the street."

She said Fanta cut Stephen over and again as the skateboarders attempted to stop him.

Hearers were told: "Mr Dempsey didn't have an opportunity. He could offer no opposition. He was unarmed and gone after from behind.

You will hear the assertions of a portion of those individuals from the public who saw what occurred and who fearlessly attempted to stop it."

Fanta was accused of homicide and having a bladed article.

Ms Carberry said that since he has been considered unsuitable to stand preliminary,

members of the jury didn't need to decide his responsibility, just whether they are certain he committed the demonstrations charged against him.

The preliminary of current realities at The Old Bailey proceeds.

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