Pensioner, 67, stabbed four random women in Sainsbury’s car park in ‘revenge’ for knife arrest, court hears
Police found a newspaper clipping of a terrorist attack taped to a kitchen cupboard in defendant's home
A KNIFEMAN stabbed four women in a supermarket car park in a bid to get revenge on police who had arrested him for carrying a knife the day before, a court has heard.
Etham Aydin Orhon, 67, of Hampton, Middlesex, allegedly went on a "vicious stabbing spree" with a Leatherman knife the day after he was “humiliated” by cops who had arrested him and confiscated the knife.
Orhon has denied two accounts of attempted murder and two accounts of wounding with intent.
Kingston Crown Court heard that he had been kept in a cell at Belgravia police station overnight on May 19 this year after being charged with carrying a bladed weapon in public.
He was released on bail the following morning.
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The jury was told that when he arrived home, Orhon collected a spare Leatherman.
He allegedly went on to attack four women in a Sainsbury’s car park, before two heroic schoolboys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, distracted him until his arrest.
Jonathan Polnay, prosecuting , told the jury that police found a newspaper clipping of a terrorist attack taped to a kitchen cupboard in Orhon’s home, as well as a multi-tool with a blood-stained blade and an underground guide with the words, “murder at green lights”.
The court heard that police also found maps taped to the kitchen walls, a box for a Leatherman multitool, and brochures for knives.
Mr Polnay added: "This is a case about a vicious stabbing spree, committed by this defendant, against four entirely innocent members of the public.
"Whilst his victims were selected at random, the attack was not without motive.
"By stabbing innocent women doing their shopping in Sainsbury's, the defendant aimed to get his revenge on police for what he perceived as their mistreatment of him."
Mr Polnay told the court that Orhon, a Turkish national, arrived in the UK in 1989 and had lived a ten-minute walk from the alleged attacks for almost 14 years.
Orhon's victims, Suzanna Brand, Janet Morsey, Jean Sullivan and Charandasi Chandiramani, were allegedly attacked by Orhon in the Tangley Park car park in Hampton at around 10.30am on Friday, May 20.
Mr Polnay said: "Suzanna Brand was on her way to meet her mother in Sainsbury's as she always does at 10.30am on a Friday.
"The defendant came up behind her. Ms Brand didn't even have a chance to defend herself. He stabbed her 12 times.
"All she was able to do was kick out at the defendant when she was on the ground."
Mr Polnay told the court that Ms Brand was stabbed in the leg, back, side and arm, suffering "very serious injuries", including "two collapsed lungs and a laceration to her liver".
Despite her injuries Ms Brand walked around a corner screaming, "did he stab me, did he stab me", and was searching for her wounds.
The second victim, Jean Sullivan had finished her shopping when she heard running footsteps and was stabbed in the shoulder, the court heard.
Mr Polnay told the jury that Ms Sullivan got into her car and locked the doors, thinking "nothing more about it".
The third victim Janet Morsey told jurors she had gone out that day to buy her son a birthday present.
She said: “I looked at him and he looked at me and I could see what was happening.
“I said ‘please don't hurt me, please don't do it please".
“He seemed to do it with intent, he didn't hesitate.
“He started to lurch towards me, I was now paralysed to the spot.
“He swung his arm back to get a good swing, I put my arm up and he stabbed me in the ribcage.
“I started screaming.
“He then did another swing and stabbed me in the hip.”
“He was about 6'3, he was towering over me.
“I thought this is getting really scary, this isn't going to stop, I'm going to die in a Sainsbury's carpark.
“I was terrified he was going to get me in the face or chest.”
The fourth victim, Ms Chandiramani, suffered two stab wounds, the first touching her kidney.
The jury was told that while in Orhon told an officer: "I was released at about 9am. I went home and got my other leatherman.
"I shouldn't have done it, I feel bad, it was a loss of control. I felt humiliated."
Orhon later said in a police interview that he had felt "mentally tortured" by police, adding: "I went home and got my other Leatherman. I shouldn't have done it. I feel bad. It was a loss of control. I felt humiliated," the court heard.
Mr Polnay told the jury: ";Orhon does not dispute that he stabbed those four women.
"It will not be suggested to you that he was legally insane.
"The only issue you will have to determine is what he intended when he stabbed each of those four women.
"As a man who was not insane, the prosecution say that, on the basis of the number of times he stabbed those women, he must have intended to kill or cause really serious injury.
"Quite why, or what thinking process led him to do what he said, we may never know."
The trial continues.
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