CONVICTION FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER AT THE 2024 NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

Mark Paltenghi secured the conviction of Rumarni Tuitt by a jury at The Old Bailey, yesterday, for attempted murder. 

The case arose out of a ferocious attack at the Notting Hill Carnival on Monday 26 August 2024, in which the defendant stabbed the victim five times in the stomach and back with a Zombie knife thereby transecting his intestine as well as damaging his liver and pancreas.  Four of the wounds were life-threatening. The victim, who was unarmed, did not know the defendant and was unable to provide any apparent motive for this attack. For a variety of reasons, the defendant was not interviewed under caution and so the Crown was unable to rely upon a section 34 silence direction. In his evidence, the defendant said he had taken the knife to the carnival for his own protection as he had been stabbed several times before. He did not know the victim.  He had produced his knife whilst acting in self-defence of himself and his friends when they were set upon by a larger group of males - that included the victim - one of whom had produced a knife and threatened them.  The defendant waved his own knife around to scare them off, but maintained he had not intended to stab anyone.

He will be sentenced on 27 June 2025.

Media: BBC