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Jury Finds Mohammed Miah Took Part in Norwich Hotel Stabbing

A hearing set for August 22 will review Miah’s fitness to plead

Overview

  • After four hours and 20 minutes of deliberation, jurors concluded that Miah participated in the February 2020 knife attack near the Nelson Hotel
  • Judge Anthony Bate scheduled the August 22 hearing to assess Miah’s unfitness to plead
  • Isaiah Weekes, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of wounding without intent in the joint enterprise case
  • Jurors reviewed attacker-filmed mobile footage showing the victim bleeding beneath the text “out on violence” alongside a passerby’s 999 call capturing the victim unconscious
  • Prosecutors presented evidence that Miah and Weekes fled by taxi, stopping for petrol at a Thetford service station before leaving Norfolk