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Brixton slasher Mohamed Nur jailed for life for series of attacks that ended in woman's murder

Source: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire

An “extremely dangerous” man has been jailed for at least 32 years for the “horrific” killing of a woman as part of a series of random slasher attacks in Brixton.

Drug addict Mohamed Nur, 34, ran up behind 31-year-old Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey and stabbed her three times in the neck as she walked home in south London on May 1 last year.

Two days earlier, he had slashed the faces of two women and a man in what the Old Bailey heard were “unprovoked and random” attacks.

Nur had admitted murder and having a homemade blade on.

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