Man detained for stabbing dog walker to death
<img src="https://industrymovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/660c9990-c0c8-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg.webp" alt="Met Police Undated handout file photo originally issued on 17/07/26 by the Metropolitan Police of Dawood Safi who has been sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to an indefinite <a href="https://industrymovement.com/british-tvs-alison-hammond-rushed-to-hospital-after-live-tv-scare/” title=”British TV's Alison Hammond Rushed to Hospital After Live TV Scare”>hospital order for the manslaughter of street cleaner Wayne Broadhurst in a stabbing spree in Uxbridge, west London. Issue date: Monday October 05, 2026.”>
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A man who killed a dog walker and attacked two other people in a “frenzy of violence” in west London has been given an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter.
Dawood Safi, 28, fatally stabbed Wayne Broadhurst, 49, in the street during a series of knife attacks which began at Safi’s home in Uxbridge on 27 October 2025.
Safi, who was having paranoid delusions and hearing voices, attacked his landlord Shahzad Farrukh minutes before killing Broadhurst, and also stabbed a 14-year-old boy.
At Southwark Crown Court, Mrs Justice Cutts said Safi, an Afghan refugee, had been “in a psychotic state” and recommended that he be deported, but said the final decision rested with the Home Secretary.
Broadhurst family
In her sentencing remarks, the judge acknowledged the “devastating” impact of the crime on Broadhurst’s family, and added that he was “a hard-working and decent man who was deeply loved”.
Cutts told Safi: “Wayne Broadhurst, a gentle and quiet man, had the misfortune to be walking his dog at the time.
“As he emerged from the alleyway on to the street, you set upon and killed him in a frenzied, random, and completely unprovoked assault involving stabbing him at least 14 times.”
Broadhurst’s partner, Ann Newman, told the court she had had a “future stolen from me” and described facing up to a daily battle with grief and loss.
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Safi, who appeared for his sentencing hearing on a video link from the high-security Broadmoor hospital, was born in the Kapisa province of northern Afghanistan.
He was smuggled in to the UK on the back of a lorry in November 2020 and lied about his age – saying he was 17 instead of 22 – to stand a better chance of asylum.
He worked as an Uber driver, studied for a mechanics qualification at Uxbridge College and had no convictions since entering the country.
He had sought help from doctors for his deteriorating mental health prior to the stabbings, which began at his home in Midhurst Gardens.
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