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| Washwood Heath mosque attempt murder charge dropped | Washwood Heath mosque attempt murder charge dropped |
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| A man judged to be clinically insane has had an attempted murder charge dropped after a policeman and worshippers were stabbed at a mosque. | A man judged to be clinically insane has had an attempted murder charge dropped after a policeman and worshippers were stabbed at a mosque. |
| Mohamoud Elmi stabbed a policeman, PC Adam Koch, and two worshippers in Washwood Heath in Birmingham last June. | Mohamoud Elmi stabbed a policeman, PC Adam Koch, and two worshippers in Washwood Heath in Birmingham last June. |
| PC Koch and the two men, who were stabbed repeatedly, survived. | |
| Birmingham Crown Court heard Mr Elmi, 32, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had declined treatment before the incident in the mosque. | |
| The three-day trial was told Mr Elmi, of Ward End Hall Grove, Washwood Heath, attacked worshippers on 15 June shortly after threatening two teenagers. | |
| The prosecution said Mr Elmi raised a knife above Tahir Mumtaz, who was in a praying position, and repeatedly stabbed him to his body. | |
| Another man, Zakaria Bhayat, was injured when he tried to restrain Mr Elmi, who then walked "calmly" into a washroom before returning to pray, it was said. | |
| The trial was told PC Koch shouted to Mr Elmi to warn him that he had a Taser. | |
| But Mr Elmi made his way towards the officer, holding a knife above his shoulder, and stabbed him several times despite the Taser being discharged. |