Man jailed for knife attack on his wife

JAILED . . . Mohammed Alom

Taser failed to stop frenzied assault
A MAN who carried on trying to stab his estranged wife even after being Tasered by police has been jailed.

Manchester Crown Court heard that Mohammed Alom — who has been locked up for two years — cut the wires of the stun gun after being shot with its electrifying probes at a house in Oldham.

Officers had to smash his knife in half with a baton to end the frenzied attack.

Alom (29), of Rochdale, forced his way into where his estranged wife was staying in the early hours of December 20 last year,

Vanessa Thomson, prosecuting, told the court: “He then broke down the door to the room where the victim cowered with a two-year-old child before telling her ‘I’m going to finish you off today’.”

Horrified bystanders witnessed wild-eyed Alom breaking a window with a stone, hurling a wheelie bin through it, and then clambering through the shards of glass in a determined effort to get to the victim.

He ran up the stairs and barged his way into her room where he then knifed her repeatedly in front of the toddler.

Three men — Shah Rejack, Ahmed Uddin, Shueb Uddin — took a “great chance” by following him into the house in a bid to talk him out of it.

But they backed away and called police when Alom — who was high on a cocktail of drink and drugs — turned to them with the blade in his hand.

Although the victim was injured in the abdomen, legs and fingers she escaped serious injury. Her shrieks were heard by a terrified four-year-old child who was also in the house, the court heard.

When police arrived they tried to subdue Alom with a Taser, used to disable people with a high-voltage electrical shock that causes agonising muscle spasms.

But Alom brushed off the restraint bid and began slicing through the wires connected to the probes in his body.

Alom, who was said to be suffering from a mental illness at the time of the attack, said he felt sorrow for his actions and apologised in court.

Sentencing Alom, who admitted unlawful wounding, having a knife, making a threat to kill and possessing cannabis, Judge Michael Henshell praised the bravery of the three passers-by who had tried to talk down an “armed and dangerous man” as worthy of respect and commendation.

“Behaviour such as that should never go unnoticed,” the judge added.

Judge Henshell said: “Where the attack took place was somewhere where the victim was entitled to feel safe. The offence which you committed against her was one that was a determined attack. The effect of the attack can’t be overstated.”

A five-year restraining order bars Alom from going near his wife.