Hartlepool murder-accused extremist ‘did not intend to kill’

(BBC) An Islamic extremist accused of murder has admitted stabbing two men but says he did not intend to kill.

Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, attacked his housemate and a man he met in the street, 70-year-old Terence Carney, in Hartlepool in October.

Mr Carney died but Mr Alid, 45, denies murder and attempted murder.

Speaking through an Arabic translator, Mr Alid told Teesside Crown Court he knew it was wrong to stab the men but was not responsible for their injuries.

The court has heard Mr Alid lived with three other men at a home for asylum seekers on Wharton Terrace in Hartlepool.

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