{"id":561791,"date":"2026-05-02T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:08:08","slug":"suspect-in-uk-stabbing-attack-on-jewish-men-faces-third-attempted-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561791\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in UK Stabbing Attack on Jewish Men Faces Third Attempted Murder Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suspect in the stabbing<\/a> of two Jewish men in north London appeared in court on Friday after being charged with three counts of attempted murder, the third relating to an attack on an acquaintance earlier that same day.<\/p>\n

The suspect, Essa Suleiman, 45, is accused of attempting to murder Ishmail Hussein, a man he had known for about 20 years, at Mr. Hussein\u2019s flat in south London on Wednesday morning. The prosecution said that Mr. Suleiman then traveled to Golders Green in north London, where he is accused of attempting to murder two Jewish men \u2014 Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76 \u2014 with a knife.<\/p>\n

Mr. Suleiman, who was born in Somalia and came to Britain as a child, is a British citizen. He appeared in Westminister Magistrates\u2019 Court wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants and was not asked to enter a guilty or innocent plea.<\/p>\n

The BBC reported that details of his home address could not be made public because he lived in housing for mental health patients in need of additional support.<\/p>\n

In Britain, strict laws prevent the reporting after charges have been filed of anything that could prejudice a jury in a trial.<\/p>\n

Mr. Suleiman is scheduled to appear in London\u2019s Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey, on May 15, and he remains in police custody.<\/p>\n

On Thursday evening, Britain\u2019s terrorism threat level was raised to \u201csevere.\u201d The adjustment, by Britain\u2019s Joint Terrorism Analysis Center, signifies that an attack is considered \u201chighly likely in the next six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time the nationwide threat level was raised to \u201csevere,\u201d the second highest of five standard levels on its scale, was in 2021 after the murder of David Amess<\/a>, a British lawmaker. The threat level was dropped to \u201csubstantial,\u201d the third highest level, four months later, in February 2022.<\/p>\n

While the increase came after the Golders Green stabbings, the government emphasized that it was not solely a result of that attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terrorist threat level in the U.K. has been rising for some time, driven by an increase in broader Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat from individuals and small groups based in the U.K.,\u201d Britain\u2019s Home Office, which oversees national security, said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Home Office also noted that the rising threat level \u201ccomes against a backdrop of increased state-linked physical threats, which is encouraging acts of violence, including against the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lizzie Dearden contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London appeared in court on Friday after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,59,192683,57,58,192684,184837,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-england","tag-gb","tag-golders-green-london","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-jews-and-judaism","tag-london-england","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}