{"id":4325,"date":"2009-11-26T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/triple-stab-teen-guilty\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:06:51","slug":"triple-stab-teen-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/triple-stab-teen-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple stab teen guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saajidah Mullan fled to India after stabbing<\/h3>\n
\"\"A LEICESTER woman who fled to India after stabbing a mother, her daughter and a friend during a night out in the city earlier this year has been found guilty.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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Saajidah Mullan was convicted of three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm following a 10-day trial at Leicester Crown Court. <\/div>\n

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The 20-year-old, who was arrested by detectives in April this year as she tried to slip back into the country, will be sentenced next month. <\/div>\n

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Billie Hewerdine, 46, her daughter, Carlie Winkless, 20, and friend Leona Carr, 21, received puncture wounds following the attack on August 28, last year. <\/div>\n

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The court was told the trio, who had been out in Leicester city centre celebrating a birthday, were involved in an argument with a group of people, including Mullan. <\/div>\n

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As the skirmish unfolded, Billie Hewerdine, Carlie Winkless and Leona Carr were stabbed. <\/div>\n

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The three women were rushed to hospital where they underwent emergency surgery. <\/div>\n

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Mullan denied stabbing the pair in court saying she fled the scene when the fight broke out. <\/div>\n

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Two days after the attack, Mullan obtained a visa to India and left the country, the court heard. <\/div>\n

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But she was arrested at Heathrow Airport on April 15 trying to slip back into the country following a tip-off to the police. <\/div>\n

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The court was read extracts from a diary written by Mullan when she was in India. She wrote: “I’m back in India and we all know why. Apparently it’s baking in Leicester and I cannot go back for a long time. I wish I didn’t do all these stupid things.”<\/div>\n

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In another entry, she stated: “I can’t believe I ain’t ever going back home.”<\/div>\n

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She later wrote: “I really think I should just go back and face the music. It’s the only way out of this miserable exile.”<\/div>\n

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David Herbert, prosecuting, said the reference to “baking” in Leicester was in relation to the “heat” or police interest in her.<\/div>\n

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Mullan told the court she was unaware she was wanted by police and had flown to India for “spiritual enlightenment” and to \u201cbecome a better Muslim\u201d.<\/div>\n

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Following the guilty verdict Detective Inspector Andy Allden, from Leicestershire Constabulary, said Mullan faced a custodial sentence for the attack. <\/div>\n

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\u201cThis was a very nasty assault and could have had much more serious consequences. Instead of facing the consequences of her actions Mullan decided to leave the country,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cThis woman committed a very serious offence and she can expect to serve a number of years in prison. She was carrying a knife on an evening out in Leicester and chose to use it to harm these women.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Saajidah Mullan fled to India after stabbing A LEICESTER woman who fled to India after stabbing a mother, her daughter and a friend during a night out in the city earlier this year has been found guilty. Saajidah Mullan was convicted of three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}