A jobless man was in court Tuesday charged with the attempted murder of a teenage boy stabbed outside a mosque.
Dominic Palmer, 29, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court after last Saturday's stabbing in the same road.
The boy's father called the attack an 'act of terrorism' after screaming 'someone help me, my son's about to die' as the teenager lay with his throat slit.
Syed Hassan Abbas was named locally as the victim of the 'ISIS-inspired' stabbing attack outside the Maarif-e-Islam Hussainia Mosque in Herbert Road in Birmingham in the early hours of Saturday.
The schoolboy from the Kings Heath area from Birmingham was stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck at around 1am as his horrified brother and father looked on. He was put in an induced coma in hospital.
