A 45-year-old man has been charged with attempting to kill two Jewish men in London on Wednesday (29 April).
Essa Suleiman appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, charged with two counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in connection with the incident in north London.
Two Jewish men, 34-year-old Shloime Rand and 76-year-old Moshe Shine - named in the charges as Norman Shine - were taken to hospital following the attack.
Rand, who suffered a punctured lung, has since been discharged from hospital. Shine sustained a stab wound to the neck and remains in hospital in a stable condition.
Suleiman allegedly launched three attacks.
He was also charged with a separate count of attempted murder relating to another incident on the same day, in which he is accused of attacking a former friend.
Prosecutor Emma Harraway said Suleiman carried out the assault on the individual in south London on Wednesday morning before the attack in north London later that day.
Rand had been studying at a synagogue in Golders Green - an area of north London with a large Jewish population - and was wearing “traditional clothing associated with an Orthodox Jewish man” when Suleiman allegedly ran at him and stabbed him with a knife, Harraway said.
Suleiman then allegedly attacked Shine, who was also wearing traditional Jewish attire, as he waited at a bus stop, before being arrested by police using a Taser, Harraway added.
He appeared in the dock wearing a grey tracksuit, flanked by two security guards. Suleiman was remanded in custody and is due to appear at London’s Old Bailey on 15 May.
Prosecutors said his address was a mental health hospital in south London. Suleiman was born in Somalia and came to the U.K. legally as a child in the 1990s.
The stabbings followed a spate of arson attacks targeting Jewish businesses and synagogues in the Golders Green district of north London, where nearly half of residents identify as Jewish.
In October 2025, two people and an attacker were killed after a man drove at a synagogue in the U.K.’s second city, Manchester.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to take stronger action to protect Jewish communities in the wake of the incidents.
He condemned the attack and pledged increased funding and tougher legislation to tackle antisemitism.
However, he was heckled by a small group during a visit to the headquarters of the local Jewish-led Hatzola ambulance service on Thursday.
The attack comes days before local government elections on 7 May, in which Starmer’s ruling Labour Party is expected to suffer heavy losses.
Leaders from opposition parties, Reform UK and the Conservative Party, visited the scene and criticised the government’s response.
London’s Police Chief Mark Rowley criticised U.K. Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, on Friday for sharing comments on X that condemned the actions of officers who arrested Suleiman. Polanski has since apologised for the post.
Reform UK are expected to make the biggest gains in the local elections, followed by the Greens.
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