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.
What Happened?
Crazed Albal Z stabbed his victim a day before his seventh birthday with a 12-inch kitchen knife before throwing the weapon in a street bin as he fled the scene.
The random street attack happened on December 10 2021 on 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 an emergency operation for neck wounds sustained in the motiveless stabbing and was scarred for life as well as being left with psychological side-effects.
Yesterday his Kosovo-born British attacker, known to police in the UK because of prior arrests, was handed a ten-year custodial sentence following his trial last month in the Spanish capital.
Court Ruling
Madrid’s Audiencia Provincial Court ruled the paranoid schizophrenic should begin his jail term in a high-security psychiatric hospital.
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Albal, whose surname has not yet been released, was arrested 12 days after the horror attack.
He was captured on CCTV fleeing the crime scene but his DNA on the knife police recovered proved key to his arrest at a hostel in Madrid. He had only been in Spain eight days before the attack.
How He Was Caught
Police identified him using a transnational DNA profile exchange called the Prum system designed to combat terrorism and cross-border crime which is understood to have flagged up his previous arrests in the UK. It was not immediately clear this morning if any had resulted in convictions.
Public prosecutors said they wanted him jailed for 15 years if convicted of attempted murder in a pre-trial indictment, accepting he suffered from a mental illness which altered but didn’t ‘annul’ his perception of reality.
