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Get you up to speed: First picture of Belfast stabbing attack victim after city-wide riots | News UK
Stephen Ogilvie, in his 40s, was stabbed in a brutal attack on Kinnaird Avenue in northern Belfast on Monday evening, allegedly by a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker. Mr Ogilvie is currently in hospital receiving treatment for severe injuries, while the suspect faces charges including possession of a blade in public and making threats to kill.
The suspect, a 30-year-old Sudanese man, is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court later today, facing charges that include possession of a blade and making threats to kill. Police have confirmed that there is no indication the attack was terror-related, as investigations continue into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the attack in Belfast, stating, “I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.” The accused is set to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court later today, with police asserting there is no indication the incident was terror-related.
What remains unclear — It is not known why Stephen Ogilvie was attacked by the Sudanese asylum seeker.
Belfast stabbing victim named as Stephen Ogilvie following city riots
The man who was stabbed in the brutal Belfast attack, which sparked city riots, has been identified by neighbours as Stephen Ogilvie.
Mr Ogilvie, believed to be in his 40s, was attacked on Monday evening after allegedly being attacked by a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker.
Graphic footage was shared across social media after the attack, which took place on Kinnaird Avenue in northern Belfast.
Mr Ogilvie was seen lying on the ground as the suspect sat atop of him, with a knife to his throat.
The 30-year-old accused is also charged with possession of an article with a blade or point in a public place and making threats to kill.
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Neighbours told the Daily Mail that Mr Ogilvie, who is in hospital receiving treatment for his severe injuries, was living in the same block of flats as his alleged attacker.
One neighbour said: ‘He’s a vulnerable person, apparently. There’s a lot of information swirling around as to what happened. Nobody knows for sure why Stephen was attacked.’
Another resident said some of the neighbours ‘look out’ for Stephen. He said the Sudanese man had only lived in the block for around a week or so, claiming it was ‘social housing’.
The accused is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court later today.
Detectives have said there is no indication Monday’s knife attack was terror-related.
The clip of the attack showed people, including one with a hurling stick, intervening to stop the man attacking the victim. Police later recovered a kitchen knife from the scene.
What do we know about the suspect?
Police revealed details on the arrested man’s immigration status and how he travelled to the UK.
He entered Northern Ireland across the Irish border in February 2023 having flown to Dublin from Paris.
The suspect claimed asylum upon arrival and in September 2023 was granted leave to remain in the UK until 2028.
They identified his nationality as Sudanese.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: ‘The horrific attack in Belfast last night is sickening.
‘I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.
‘My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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