LONDON—A jury has ruled an illiterate Eritrean who was granted asylum in Britain in 2019 murdered a complete stranger two years later in a random knife attack in one of London’s busiest shopping areas.
Tedi Fanta Hagos, 26, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of 60-year-old Steve Dempsey, who suffered fatal stab wounds as he walked past the Microsoft store in Oxford Circus, central London, on July 1, 2021.
But on Wednesday, after deliberating for only 20 minutes, a jury at the Old Bailey decided Fanta had committed the “act of murder” and Judge Michael Topolski said the only appropriate sentence was an indefinite hospital order….