Man who didn’t like ruling attacks judge with meat cleaver

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From The Daily Mail U.K.

Man ‘lunged at judge’s head with meat cleaver’

By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 12:32 PM on 20th June 2010

A man armed with a meat cleaver allegedly threatened an employment tribunal chairman after losing a case.

Eyewitnesses claimed Mohammed Choudhury lunged at 66-year-old Russell Hardwick with the blade, forcing him to protect himself with his arms at the Reading Employment Tribunal Centre on Friday.

Barrister Andrew Burns said: ‘He just walked up to the judge and said something like, “You threw out my case.” Then he raised this meat cleaver before the judge’s head.

meat cleaver‘Unreal’: Judge Russell Hardwick had to run from Mohammed Choudhury who raised the cleaver aloft over his head

‘The judge cried out and tried to protect himself with his arms. I quickly went up to the man and asked him to hand it over. Amazingly, he complied.’

Mr Burns added: ‘It all happened in a matter of seconds. I then kept him talking for about ten minutes until the police arrived.

‘It was unreal at the time but afterwards we were all as white as sheets and it could so easily have turned out very differently.’

Trainee barrister Kate Balmer, 25, said that Mr Burns ‘probably saved the judge’s life’.

She said: ‘Andrew Burns shouted at him, “What on Earth do you think you are doing?” The man looked at him and the judge managed to run out into his room and shut the door.’

Mr Choudhury, 42, a former library worker, of Wellesley Road, Slough, was charged with an offence under the Public Order Act.

Visitors to the tribunal centre are not required to undergo searches or bag checks and Mr Burns said there had been calls for more security measures to be introduced.

Mr Hardwick, a former solicitor, has been an employment tribunal chairman since 1990. He announced his retirement last May when he reached 65 but has still been hearing cases at Reading.

2 Replies to “Man who didn’t like ruling attacks judge with meat cleaver”

  1. Sadly, the judge was not cut up into a 100 pieces for all to see – but the tapes would have been dumped in the garbage ca by the BBC brainiacs.

    Symbol of what muslims wantto do to great britain while all the good brits bash Israel for defending itself.

    nanana, nanana, hey hey ya, goodbye … britain

  2. All jokes aside, this is how Muslims react to western justice that goeas against their wishes; with violence.

    Very few Muslims can use reason or rationally accept that the world does not revolve around them, much as they would like it to.

    Each and every time they protest something, its full of hatred, sloganeering and is usually over something trivial, like a cartoon, a novel, a TV show or the fact that they are now being exposed more and more as the hate-filled, brainwashed masses that they are.