Overview
- Bournemouth Crown Court jailed Ibrahim Zouari, 35, for 15 months for threatening a person with a bladed article during the Roundhouse Hotel incident.
- Co-defendant Houssine Nouira, 32, was sentenced in May to 12 months, the threshold for automatic deportation subject to appeal.
- CCTV showed Zouari arming himself with a chair and a knife and repeatedly chasing staff member Vignesh Ponnusamy, who told the court he feared he would be killed.
- The disturbance began around 6:20 a.m. after the pair demanded lunch that met their dietary requirements while breakfast was being served.
- Prosecutors said Zouari has since accrued convictions for assaulting emergency workers, shoplifting and public disorder, while mitigation cited trauma and a PTSD diagnosis.