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Barney Davis

Man appears in court charged with attempted murder after ‘pickaxe rampage’ inside Central Middlesex Hospital

A maintenance worker has appeared in court accused of attacking colleagues at a hospital and stabbing one of them in the neck with a mattock.

Matteo Bottarelli, 43, is alleged to have chased colleagues with a mattock – a large pickaxe – around the grounds of Central Middlesex Hospital in north-west London before stabbing one of them in the neck from behind.

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