Overview
- The Crown Prosecution Service charged Safi Dawood with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder, and he remains in custody ahead of a court appearance.
- Police say 49-year-old Wayne Broadhurst died at the scene; a 45-year-old man has life-changing but not life-threatening injuries, and a 14-year-old boy’s injuries are neither life-threatening nor life-changing.
- The attack happened around 5pm on 27 October in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, and officers used a Taser during the arrest as footage circulated online.
- Detectives are not treating the case as terrorism and are examining any relationship between the suspect and the victims.
- Officials confirmed the suspect is an Afghan national who arrived in 2020 and was granted asylum in 2022, with police continuing forensics, extra patrols, and appeals for information quoting reference 5129/27OCT.