A man who killed his father and stabbed his two-year-old baby nephew and 11-year-old niece after a family meal at their home in London’s East End has been sentenced to a mental hospital detention order without time limit.
Suluk Ahmed, 32, pictured, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of involuntary manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. He had been struggling with mental health in the months leading up to the killing in Bethnal Green on a summer’s evening last year.
An ambulance crew answering a 999 call from his 13-year-old nephew arrived at a house at the end of Huddleston Close, a cul-de-sac off Parmiter Street, found the 79-year-old grandfather dying and his two grandchildren bleeding—all from knife wounds.
Police were called and Ahmed was arrested as the children were being treated by paramedics in the house before being taken to hospital with their grandfather.
Ahmed had been at the family home for a meal with his parents, two sisters and young niece and nephews, the court heard.
