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Van driver who slashed 'Britain's hardest cop' SIX times with machete is CLEARED of attempted murder
Daily Mail ^ | 23 Jan 2020 | Ryan Fahey

Posted on 01/24/2020 9:44:59 PM PST by Cronos

Muhammad Rodwan, 56, launched a ferocious assault on PC Stuart Outten, 29, hacking at him with a 2ft-long rusty blade last August after the officer stopped his passing van because it was not insured.

Shocking footage from the officer’s body-worn camera shows him fighting for his life after Rodwan leapt on him, stabbing him repeatedly and fracturing his skull.

The PC, later nicknamed Britain’s bravest policeman, only managed to survive by firing his Taser twice as he fell to the ground with Rodwan coming ‘in for the kill’, jurors were told.

Yesterday, there was fury as Rodwan was cleared of attempted murder and only convicted of wounding after it emerged that jurors were not told of his violent past.

It can now be revealed that he is a convicted rapist who has previously been jailed for carrying out an unprovoked machete attack on two other men

The handyman – who was previously known as Rodney Reid and lived in his van – was jailed for nine years in 1997 for wounding two men in his flat in east London.

Both victims needed surgery following the attack in 1996, with one having almost had his hand chopped off.

In addition, Rodwan had previously been jailed for three years for rape in 1983.

But jurors at the Old Bailey were not told about what prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC described as the ‘strikingly similar’ machete attack, which he said demonstrated Rodwan’s propensity for gratuitous violence.

Mrs Justice Carr ruled his past offending was inadmissible due to the passage of time, despite jurors asking if he had previous convictions.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: englandisdead; jonathanrees; muhammadrodwan; rodneyreid; sophiekhan; stuartoutten; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/24/2020 9:44:59 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

So, where’s Dexter when you really need him?


2 posted on 01/24/2020 9:46:57 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cronos

The judge in the case needs to face criminal charges.


3 posted on 01/24/2020 9:48:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Cronos

I can’t help but think if his name had been Oliver instead of Muhammed things might not have gone so well for him. But we can’t be racist.


4 posted on 01/24/2020 9:52:07 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Cronos

The powers that be do not deserve to be the powers that be any longer.


5 posted on 01/24/2020 9:52:08 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Cronos

Every once in a while, a judge should be hanged pour encourager les autres


6 posted on 01/24/2020 9:52:45 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Cronos

WTF????


7 posted on 01/24/2020 9:53:42 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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Islam is a war plan


8 posted on 01/24/2020 9:53:57 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

As is Socialism.


9 posted on 01/24/2020 9:56:05 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Cronos

Would the judge’s decision have been the same if the cop had done to Mohammed what Mohammed did to the cop?


10 posted on 01/24/2020 9:59:56 PM PST by KJC1 (Illegals: One hand out and the other one flipping us the bird)
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To: catnipman

My middle daughter told me about that show one time, she loved it. I watched two or three episodes before I decided I was flat creeped the f*&k out.


11 posted on 01/24/2020 10:10:21 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: KJC1

nope, cop would have had the book thrown at him


12 posted on 01/24/2020 10:11:14 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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Lawyer says heroic police officer should be disciplined for saving his life during vicious machete attack
13 posted on 01/24/2020 10:11:57 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

14 posted on 01/24/2020 10:28:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cronos

should be asigned to watch the judges children for the rest of his life.


15 posted on 01/24/2020 10:56:35 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Cronos

I have a few handyman jobs for this guy. Schumer’s house, Schiff’s house, Pelosi’s house......


16 posted on 01/24/2020 11:08:34 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Cronos

Does he think he’s a movie director? Check out the 3rd fact;

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59790/15-fun-facts-about-hot-fuzz


17 posted on 01/24/2020 11:09:41 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Cronos

soooo- over there- anytime a policeman pulls you over you are free to beat the hell out of them and you’re golden because the police were using ‘excessive force’ for pulling you over?


18 posted on 01/24/2020 11:48:52 PM PST by Bob434
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Mrs Justice Carr

There is a whole generation of female judges in Britain who seem to get a thrill by batting their eyelashes at violent Moslem criminals.

19 posted on 01/24/2020 11:51:36 PM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Cronos
"The sun never sets on the Empire"

Yeah...it has.

20 posted on 01/25/2020 12:16:36 AM PST by Eagles6
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