A convicted sex offender grabbed a 17-year-old from behind and slashed his throat on a bus in a brutal attack.
The boy's horrified 16-year-old girlfriend tried to stop Hamid Akhonzada as he 'held his head back and drew a bladed article described as a steak knife across the throat', a court heard. Akhonzada was described as having a 'major psychotic disorder' and said he 'heard the voices in his head telling him to stab somebody'.
The 26-year-old launched the horrific attack on a bus in Runcorn on May 8 last year, the Liverpool Echo reports. Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting at Chester Crown Court on Friday (July 8), said Akhonzada was sitting behind the young couple when he grabbed the teenager by the hair and pulled out the weapon.
