- Albal Z stabbed the schoolboy in the neck while he was on his way to school
- The young boy suffered serious injuries that scarred him for life
- Albal Z was sentenced to ten years in prison for his heinous crime
A British man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the attempted murder of a six-year-old child near his school in Madrid.
Crazy Albal Z stabbed his victim with a 12in kitchen knife a day before his seventh birthday before throwing the weapon in a street bin as he fled the scene.
The random street attack took place on December 10, 2021 at a zebra crossing as the youngster returned to private British international school Hastings School after a PE lesson.
The child, the last in a single-file line of classmates, had to undergo emergency surgery for neck wounds suffered in the motiveless stabbing and was scarred for life as well as suffering psychological side effects.
Yesterday his Kosovo-born British attacker, known to police in Britain because of previous arrests, was given a 10-year prison sentence following his trial in the Spanish capital last month.
The deranged Albal Z stabbed his victim with a 30 cm kitchen knife one day before his seventh birthday
The random street attack happened on December 10, 2021 at a zebra crossing as the youngster was returning to private British international school Hastings School
The Audiencia provincial court in Madrid has ruled that the paranoid schizophrenic must begin his prison sentence in a high-security psychiatric hospital.
Albal, whose surname has not yet been released, was arrested 12 days after the horror attack.
He was captured on CCTV fleeing the scene, but his DNA on the recovered knife proved key to his arrest at a Madrid hostel. He had been in Spain only eight days before the attack.
Police identified him using a transnational DNA profile exchange called the Prum system, which is designed to combat terrorism and cross-border crime and is believed to have highlighted his previous arrests in Britain. It was not immediately clear this morning whether these had led to convictions.
Prosecutors said they wanted him in prison for 15 years if convicted of attempted murder in a pre-trial indictment, and accepted that he suffered from a mental illness that altered but did not “eliminate” his perception of reality.
About the attack, the indictment states: ‘In a surprising manner and with the intention of ending his life, he charged at the young person from behind, without the young person seeing him or being able to react.’
The four-inch wound the boy suffered affected his neck muscles and muscular veins, affecting a critical area due to the blood vessels contained therein.
Albal, whose surname has not yet been released, was arrested 12 days after the horror attack
Police identified him using a transnational DNA profile exchange called the Prum system, designed to combat terrorism and cross-border crime
In addition to a custodial sentence, judges ruled that the attacker should be deported from Spain after serving his sentence and ordered him to stay away from the child he targeted for 15 years.
According to reports yesterday, the child told police upon arrival: “A bad guy has stuck his sword in me.”
In addition to a prison sentence, judges ruled that the attacker should be deported from Spain after serving his sentence and ordered him to stay away from the child he targeted for 15 years.
He was ordered to pay the child’s family €45,000 (£38,500) in compensation. It is believed he handed over almost half that amount to the court before his trial.
Police chief Jose Antonio Rodriguez, who headed the specialized unit that helped capture the Briton responsible, told the news website El Espanol overnight: “Here the work of the scientific police was fundamental, because it only evidence we had was the knife with the DNA.
‘That DNA had a name, a man born in Kosovo but with British nationality where he was already known to the authorities.
‘He was tracked down to a hostel in Madrid. He had already bought another knife.’
The aggressor admitted stabbing his victim during his one-day trial in Madrid on February 19, but his lawyer argued he should be acquitted because he could not be held criminally responsible for his actions due to his mental illness.
His argument was only partially accepted in the judges’ written ruling, which was made public late yesterday.
A police officer who gave evidence at his trial described the attack as part of a “pre-arranged plan” and said Albal had been in the same Madrid neighborhood of Chamartin where the attack took place two days before the stabbing.