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The Sudanese suspect in the Belfast knife attack used a backdoor route into Britain popular with migrants seeking to sneak into the country. The Telegraph revealed last year how people smugglers were exploiting the soft border between Britain and Ireland to bring illegal migrants into the UK. Albanian gangs were charging £4,000 to traffic the migrants to Britain through the "backdoor" provided by the Common Travel Area (CTA) between Ireland and Britain. The CTA is a long-standing open borders zone comprising the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Established in the 1920s, it allows British and...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police blasted water cannons Wednesday at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them during a second night of violence over a brutal stabbing on a Belfast street. Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed sidewalks with sledgehammers to toss at riot police. In one place, the unruly crowd used sections of a dismantled a picket fence to take cover on the street. The clashes with police came several hours after a 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court charged with...

The Belfast victim remains in serious condition in hospital after a savage, medieval knife attack in north Belfast left him with catastrophic injuries, including the loss of his left eye, severe damage to his right eye, deep cuts all over his face, and lacerations to his back. The victim, a man in his 40s, was attacked Monday night on Kinnaird Avenue, a residential street near Antrim Road. Police said he suffered significant eye injuries, and serious slash wounds to his face and back. A 30-year-old Sudanese national, Hadi Alodid, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of an article with...

The alleged knifeman in an “attempted beheading” that triggered riots in Belfast overnight has appeared in court, charged with attempted murder, knife possession, and threatening to kill an NHS radiographer.A court has heard Steven Ogilvy, the victim of the “attempted beheading” in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom this week lost one eye and suffered serious damage to the other, as well as deep cuts to his neck. He remains in hospital in serious condition. (snip) The BBC also notes the judge took the opportunity of Alodid’s first hearing to address the public in Northern Ireland, warning them...

A 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court Wednesday charged with attempted murder over a knife attack that left a victim seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland. Hadi Alodid, 30, was ordered held in jail after an appearance by video in Belfast Magistrates' Court, where he was accused of blinding Stephen Ogilvie in his left eye during the stabbing, prosecutors said. He was also charged with threatening to kill a radiographer on the same day and with possessing a knife. Alodid refused legal representation through an Arabic interpreter and did not enter...

Lord Miles@Lordmiles·9hBelfast is going crazy tonight over the recent attempted beheading by a migrant.Every Irishman I know in Belfast is taking place in riots later today. Prots and Catholic together bizarrely.The UK gov are scrambling to bring in riot police. Irish patriots are telling every white businesses to close their doors early tonight.Expect to see some crazy videos in a few hours. The city is going to burnJune 9, 2026

FIERY protests erupted in Belfast last night with homes and cars being torched after the horror “attempted beheading” that rocked the nation. LOTS OF PICTURES AT LINK............ Furious demonstrators set alight at least three houses and several vehicles including cars and a bus, following outrage over the attack, in which a man in his 40s suffered injuries to his eyes, neck and back. Yobs in balaclavas torched cars parked on residential streets and driveways in the Northern Irish capital, with at least three houses catching fire as a result. Fire engines rushed to east Belfast, where residents were evacuated from...

Hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters took to ​the streets of Belfast on Tuesday, with some setting vehicles alight, after police charged a Sudanese man over ‌a knife attack that left one person with serious neck and head wounds. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the attack, which took place in north Belfast late on Monday evening, as "sickening". Video of it was shared widely on social media.

I'm starting to think diversity is not, indeed, our strength. Surprisingly, the Police Service of Northern Ireland was quick to admit that the suspect is Somali. Normally, the police and media would report the suspect as a "Belfast man" in a situation like this! The victim not only had his throat cut, but according to reports, had at least one of his eyes gouged out by the Somali man. Here's one witness testimony from the BBC, which also reported that the man is "believed to be Somali": A resident told BBC News NI how she was in her home when...

In harrowing video posted online, an attacker can be seen straddling the bloodied victim’s neck armed with a knife. He stabs the victim in the head repeatedly before taking the knife to the man’s neck, before members of the public rush over to stop the attack. Bystanders can be heard screaming in the clip: "He’s trying to cut his head off". Police said today that a Sudanese man in his 30s had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, the Northern Ireland Secretary said members of the public who intervened during...

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where footage from the scene appeared to show an attempted beheading. The suspect was arrested after bystanders intervened. The incident was reported shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Monday on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast, where officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland responded to a stabbing. Police said one man was taken to hospital with serious injuries. A second man was arrested in connection with the incident. Graphic footage posted by witnesses showed the suspect on top of the victim in the middle of the road...

Queen’s University Belfast is to remove the name of former US Senator George Mitchell — one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement — from a peace center following the emergence of new information contained in the Jeffrey Epstein files released on Friday. A bust of Mr. Mitchell will also be removed from the university grounds. Mr. Mitchell chaired the negotiations which led to the 1998 peace agreement. The former senator has a long-standing association with the university where he was chancellor from 1999 to 2009. …

An elusive bird which is now considered to be extremely rare in Northern Ireland made an unexpected visit to a Belfast street, where it was found behind a bin. Office staff who spotted it on the Lisburn Road thought it might be a bird of prey and called wildlife rescuer Debbie Nelson, who works under the name Debbie Doolittle. She was surprised to find it was in fact a nightjar - a bird she described as "almost extinct" in Northern Ireland, with only a handful of sightings since the 1950s. "They were about to put some rubbish in the bin...

Gabe Megahey (82), one of a group of Irish republicans known as the "deportees" who had been allowed by President Clinton to remain in America, has been ordered to leave the United States by way of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security. Others in the group, which includes Belfast H-Block escapees Terence Kirby and Kevin Barry Artt who live openly in California, seem, so far, not to have attracted the attention of the US authorities. In 1983, Gabe Megahey was convicted in an FBI sting of trying to procure SAM missiles to enable the IRA to step up...

The contentious migrant effigies at the heart of a racism storm in Belfast have been set alight after police have made a decision not to assist Belfast City Council in helping contractors remove material from a bonfire site in the city. A Belfast City Council committee voted on Wednesday to send contractors to remove the towering pyre on Meridi Street off the Donegall Road. Belfast DUP councillors have launched a ‘call-in’ procedure over the planned removal of the controversial bonfire. The move comes in the wake of a vote at City Hall to remove the bonfire off the Donegall Road...

Footage of rap group Kneecap allegedly calling for the death of British MPs is being assessed by counter-terrorism police. A video has emerged of the west Belfast trio at a November 2023 gig appearing to show one person from the band saying: "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP." The Metropolitan Police also said that another video, from November last year, is being assessed. The footage appeared to show a band member shouting "up Hamas, up Hezbollah" at a performance in London. Kneecap have said on social media that they have "faced a co-ordinated smear...

READFIELD, Maine — A Maine man is accused of killing his wife while they were visiting his parents' home in Readfield, according to authorities. Samuel Whittemore, 34, of Belfast, has been charged with the murder of his 32-year-old wife, Margaux, officials announced Thursday. Maine State Police troopers and Winthrop police officers responded to a home on Giles Road shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a 911 call. Troopers discovered Margaux Whittemore dead outside the home and found Samuel Whittemore's mother, Dorothy Whittemore, injured inside the residence. Dorothy Whittemore, 67, was transported to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. She...

Ziad Khawla, 25, is accused of attacking the youth following a chance encounter close to the city centre. The Palestinian-born defendant appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court for a preliminary enquiry into the strength of the prosecution case. He is charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault over the incident on March 2 last year. It was previously disclosed that the teenager phoned police to claim he had just been attacked by a stranger who approached him near the Waterfront Hall. The man was reported to have offered him a cigarette before they then walked a short distance to...

According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, an excavation conducted in what is now the center of Derry uncovered city walls constructed between 1613 and 1619. Archaeologist Ruairi Ó'Baoill of Queen's University Belfast said that the work, which was open to the local community, focused on Nailors Row, a street that featured terraced housing adjacent to the city walls in the late eighteenth century. The last of these houses were demolished in the 1970s. "We know that people have been living in Derry for thousands of years and this area close to the double bastion is close to an...