‘Great-great-gran stabbed with killer’s foot-long knife’
Man in court over kebab shop attacks
A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with stabbing a great-great-grandma in the back with a 12-inch knife.
Norris Henry, 37, is accused of attacking 82-year-old Betty Walsh outside a kebab shop.
He then killed Ali Abucar Ali, 20, with the same blade, the Old Bailey was told.
Betty is recovering from her wounds in hospital.
CCTV showed her walking along the street before she was stabbed last Friday, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay told the court.
Mr Polnay said basketball coach Mr Ali was knifed in the chest moments later in Brentford, West London. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Henry is accused of murder and attempted murder.
He appeared via video link from Wormwood Scrubs prison for the preliminary hearing.
Henry was denied bail and will re-appear on February 21.Betty’s eldest daughter Bridget, 60, said her mum will remain in St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington after having emergency surgery.
She added: ‘’She will come out eventually, but it could be a few weeks or a month.”
Betty, affectionately known as “Betty Boo” to all her friends, has lived in Brentford all her adult life.
She was a barmaid at four local pubs before she retired.
Betty was a “rock” for her three sons and three daughters after her husband died over 30 years ago.
The mum of six has ten grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and a great-great-granddaughter.
Bridget said that she knew Ali and his mother.
She added: “His mother rushed to comfort me as soon as she heard about what happened to mum, before the police phoned her and told her the devastating news that her son had so sadly been stabbed.”