(Jewish News) Keir Starmer has told Jewish News he understands the anger within the community after a man who terrorised staff at a Golders Green kosher supermarket whilst brandishing a large knife escaped a prison sentence.
Speaking at an emotional meeting with the families of knife crime victims, the Labour leader said the failure to hand Gabriel Abdullah, 34, a prison term for the attack on staff at the [store] was “one example” of where somebody in possession of a large blade had not been made to “carry the consequence” of his criminal offence.
Barnet resident Abdullah pleaded guilty to the crime, but earlier this month was handed two concurrent suspended sentences, along with a nine-month alcohol treatment requirement after he was initially charged with affray and possession of a knife.
