What happened : On Friday, around 8pm, after stepping in to help an 82-year-old widow, Betty Walsh, after she was punched and knifed outside a kebab restaurant near her home, Ali Abucar Ali, a 20 year-old basketball coach was stabbed to death by a stranger. Details : Norris Henry, 37, of Brentford, is appearing in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with Mr Ali’s murder and the attempted murder of Mrs Walsh, a mother of six who was seriously injured but is no longer in critical condition following kidney surgery. Paul Moore, an eye witness to the incident said that Mr. Walsh was stabbed after he was walking back from a friend’s house. ‘A few of weeks ago he uploaded a Snapchat claiming that he wishes to build a mosque by 2030’, an 18-year-old family friend stated, setting candles spelling out the Arsenal fan’s name. “Now that he isn’t around to accomplish it, we will finish it for him.”
More: Ali’s friends have created a Go Fund Me page honouring him saying, “We lost a dear brother, the most caring, humble, funniest young man. Idon’t have a single memory of him without seeing his amazing smile.” Among the comments paying tribute to Mr Ali, one read: “You are a her.”