Rasheed Rahman, a 21-year-old Sudanese lorry migrant, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years for stabbing Mark Carroll, a 55-year-old grandfather, to death on April 10, 2024, in Camden, London. Just two days prior, Rahman had attacked several people and was bailed by the police. The attack came after he obtained a kitchen knife from his supported accommodation unit in Romford, which he used to stab Carroll in a park. Judge John Dodd described the murder as shocking and emphasized that Rahman is a dangerous individual, noting previous violent incidents including an assault on Iulian Cavaliuc in February 2024.
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On April 10, 2024, Rasheed Rahman, a 21-year-old Sudanese lorry migrant who was living undocumented in Essex since 2021 and granted temporary leave to remain, stabbed and killed Mark Carroll, a 55-year-old grandfather, in a park in Camden, north London. Just two days prior, on April 8, Rahman had attacked several people along a canal tow-path but was released on police bail. In February of the same year, he assaulted another man, Iulian Cavaliuc, breaking his arm and stabbing him with a knife on a bus in east London. Despite this history of violence, staff at the supported accommodation unit where Rahman lived in Chadwell Heath provided him with a blade just one day before Carroll's murder. At Wood Green Crown Court, Judge John Dodd sentenced Rahman to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 27 years and ordered his deportation.
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A Sudanese lorry migrant who stabbed a stranger to death while on police bail over a rampage just 48 hours earlier was jailed for 27 years.
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Rasheed Rahman, 21, murdered grandfather Mark Carroll, 55, on April 10, 2024 in a park in Camden, north London.
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Just two days earlier Rahman went berserk on a canal tow-path, punching and kicking members of the public but was bailed by the police.
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In February two months before those two attacks, he broke Iulian Cavaliuc's arm with a wooden club and knifed him in the back on a double decker bus in east London.
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Mr Cavaliuc reported the attack to police later that day but Rahman remained at large while police officers tried to obtain CCTV footage and find him.
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Despite Rahman's violence, staff at the supported accommodation unit where he lived in Chadwell Heath, east London, handed him a blade a day before the murder.
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It was this 5in knife he plunged into Mr Carroll in a frenzied outburst.
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Judge John Dodd, KC, at Wood Green Crown Court jailed Rahman for life with a minimum of 27 years, and told him he would be deported.
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Rasheed Rahman, 21, murdered grandfather Mark Carroll, 55, on 10 April 2024 in park in Camden, London
He said: 'On the 9th April 2024 you, Mr Rahman, were living in supported accommodation in Romford.
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You asked the house manager for the use of a kitchen knife, claiming that you wanted it to prepare some food.
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You retained it, and the following day you took it with you when you set off to travel into London.
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What you did on that day in April in 2024 was shocking and left Mark Carroll's family broken and grieving and their lives will never be the same again.
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'That random unprovoked attack was preceded in February by a similar attack without the same tragic result.'
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They said: 'Our Dad was a loving father and a devoted grandfather who meant the world to his family.
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Mark Carroll was a grandfather who took great pride in being with his family his daughters said
Here Rahman can be seen getting the blade which he used to murder Mr Carroll the next day
'Becoming a grandad brought him immense happiness.
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He often told his friends that meeting his grandchildren was one of the greatest moments of his life.
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'The memories we made together, the happiness we shared, and the love he gave so freely are things that we will cherish forever.
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While no one witnessed the attack on Mr Carroll, CCTV filmed Rahman leaving the park at 1.23pm.
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Rahman threatened one man he encountered on the street, and later, brandishing his knife, robbed a member of the public of their e-bike.
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He was seen carrying a knife in Castlehaven Community park and then putting it in a bin.
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Rahman made a successful asylum application in March 2023 and was granted temporary leave to remain in the UK.
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Three months later he admitted possession of a Class B drug and possession of a sharp pointed article, namely a broken pub dart.
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John Femi-Ola KC, defending, said Rahman was born in Sudan and saw his sister murdered when the Islamic militant group Boko Haram invaded his village.
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Rahman broke Iulian Cavaliuc's arm with a wooden club and stabbed him with a knife on a bus in February
The murder weapon:
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This is the 5 inch blade Rahman used to attack his victim at random in a frenzied outburst
Mr Femi-Ola said he fled to Chad and then Libya and then came to the UK in the back of a lorry.
He was found to be living undocumented in Essex in 2021 and was granted temporary leave to remain.
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Detective Chief Inspector Phil Clarke, who led the investigation, said: 'Our thoughts remain with Mark’s loved ones; the personal statements given by his daughters, Ayisha and Danielle, today demonstrate a heart-breaking insight into the lasting impact of his death.'
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The judge sentenced Rahman to a further five years concurrent for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and further concurrent sentences of nine months for affray, six months for assault.
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