Illegal immigrant stabbed fellow asylum hotel resident 15 times in frenzied attack
AN illegal immigrant stabbed a fellow asylum hotel resident 15 times in a frenzied attack.
Iranian Syed Barzegar, 33, went berserk after the victim banged on his door following a drawn-out row between the pair.
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He charged at him in the corridor and repeatedly stabbed him, with seven blows to his back.
Footage showed the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stumbling around in a bloodied T-shirt, leaving red footprints on the floor at the Holiday Inn Express in Oxford.
He needed emergency surgery after the attack on January 30.
Barzegar, who claimed asylum in 2023, tried to conceal the weapon by handing it to a pal, Oxford crown court was told.
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He was convicted of grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article last week and was jailed for three years yesterday.
Judge Maria Lamb KC said the victim ignited the situation but nothing can justify the attack.
Barzegar's initial asylum claim was rejected by the Home Office but he launched an appeal.
Ms Lamb added: 'Whether the deportation provisions apply is not a matter for me.'
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A co-defendant, Behroz Danandeh, was cleared of conspiring to hide the knife.
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The brutal stabbing by the illegal migrant was carried out on a fellow resident at the Holiday Inn Express in Oxford
Credit: Dan Jones Images
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