The victim of the Belfast stabbing is out of an induced coma but may lose sight in his right eye, his family have said.<\/p>\n
Stephen Ogilvie lost his left eye and suffered deep cuts to his head, face and back in a stabbing at Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast last week.<\/p>\n
Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder over the incident.<\/p>\n
He is next due to appear before court via videolink on 8 July.<\/p>\n
Mr Ogilvie’s family confirmed that he was out of an induced coma and thanked people for their kindness and generosity in the wake of the attack.<\/p>\n
They said that while they were “relieved” that he was out of a coma, he faces “significant challenges ahead” including the possibility of losing sight in his right eye.<\/p>\n
“We have been truly humbled by the kindness of so many people, many of whom have never met our family,” they said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Sudanese national Alodid entered Northern Ireland across the border by bus in February 2023, having flown to Dublin from Paris.<\/p>\n
He then claimed asylum upon arrival and was granted leave to remain in the UK until 2028.<\/p>\n
Anti-immigration disorder broke out last week, with homes, cars and a bus set on fire and people targeted based on their race.<\/p>\n
There have been 35 arrests made and 23 people charged to date after the disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim of the Belfast stabbing is out of an induced coma but may lose sight in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644172","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=644172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}