Detectives forced to grapple with murderer

April 28, 2024 admin Middlesbrough news 0

Ahmed Alid assaulted two female detectives at Middlesbrough Police Station :: The Moroccan asylum seeker has now been found guilty of the murder of Hartlepool man Terence Carney

When a murder suspect struggled with two female detectives who were questioning him about the death of a pensioner on the street, a court heard, the panic button at the police station did not function.

During the incident at Middlesbrough Police Station on October 16, Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid was heard saying “Allahu Akbar” and shouting and chanting in Arabic, according to Teesside Crown Court. According to a detective’s witness testimony, the 45-year-old had became “agitated” about his interpreter during his interrogation regarding the killing of 70-year-old Terence Carney and the attempted murder of flatmate Javed Nouri.

According to the prosecution, Alid stabbed Mr. Nouri, 31, while he slept in his room at the Hartlepool asylum seekers’ housing.

The larger man fought off his attacker who then fled into the town centre where he stabbed Mr Carney, a stranger who was out walking.
Detective constables Emma Stevenson and Angela Harvey questioned Alid when she was taken into custody the next day. Jurors heard that Dc Harvey intervened between the defendant and his interpreter upon realising that Alid was growing agitated and might perhaps be threatening him.

She said in a statement that she learned DC Stevenson had pressed a panic button, but it was ineffective. In order to request assistance, the defendant’s attorney called 999 from the interview room.

The court heard that Alid had barred the door to prevent police colleagues who were watching the interview elsewhere from breaking in. DC Stevenson tried to assist DC Harvey when Alid gave her a bear hug, and the three of them ended up on the floor, with the two officers reporting being assaulted.

CCTV from inside the police station showed a number of officers pile into the interview room, and then showed Alid being carried away. Dc Stevenson said in her witness statement that she was left “shaken” by the experience.

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