{"id":59935,"date":"2025-08-01T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/teenager-jailed-over-notting-hill-carnival-zombie-knife-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:46:44","slug":"teenager-jailed-over-notting-hill-carnival-zombie-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/teenager-jailed-over-notting-hill-carnival-zombie-knife-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager jailed over Notting Hill Carnival zombie knife attack"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A teenager has been sentenced to 18 years detention after carrying out a “brutal” zombie knife attack at the Notting Hill Carnival last year.<\/p>\n

Rumarni Tuitt, 19, from Walthamstow, north-east London, stabbed 18-year-old Kamani Spooner with the 12in (30cm)-long weapon on the evening of 26 August 2024.<\/p>\n

After a two week trial at the Old Bailey he was found guilty of attempted murder<\/a>, having earlier pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article.<\/p>\n

Sentencing him, Judge Judy Khan KC said it was a “brutal and wholly unjustifiable attack” and that there could be no justification for carrying a knife of that nature on to crowded streets, still less to Carnival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Khan said it was not the first time Tuitt had travelled to the event armed with a “fearsome weapon”, and on this occasion had used it to “devastating effect”.<\/p>\n

“This was a particularly serious offence committed in the heart of Europe’s biggest street festival,” she said.<\/p>\n

The judge quoted a police statement saying that every knife-related crime had a significant impact on the victim and created “widespread fear and anxiety within the community”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The trial heard that Tuitt sliced open the victim’s stomach with the zombie knife and that four of the five stab injuries he inflicted were life-threatening.<\/p>\n

There was no evidence to suggest that the victim and the defendant knew each other, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n

The attack had occurred in daylight on a summer’s evening in Canal Way, off Ladbroke Grove, and was witnessed by a police officer who had noticed the defendant appearing agitated and having an argument with another man.<\/p>\n

The officer then saw the defendant reach into his waistband and “plunge his knife towards a group of people”.<\/p>\n

Tuitt ran off and tried to dispose of the weapon by throwing it on the ground, but it was recovered by police.<\/p>\n

After spending a month in hospital the victim was able to make a statement to police.<\/p>\n

Mr Spooner said that he remembered towards the end of Carnival he had seen people around him fighting and throwing punches, before he was hit in the back.<\/p>\n

He then looked down to see that his intestines were hanging out and had to put his hand over them and run away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the sentence hearing, prosecutor Mark Paltenghi said the defendant had also been arrested for possession of a knife at Notting Hill Carnival in 2023.<\/p>\n

On that occasion Tuitt had become involved in an argument with a member of the public who was walking his dog and had produced a large Rambo knife and “swung it back and forth”, but had been detained by police officers.<\/p>\n

He was convicted for that offence in June last year and given a community order which was still in place when the attempted murder occurred, the court heard.<\/p>\n

In mitigation Tuitt’s barrister, Sheryl Nwosu, said the defendant was “genuinely sorry for the hurt, the harm and the distress he has caused”.<\/p>\n

The defendant had been attending Carnival with relatives and friends and had the knife “defensively”, she said.<\/p>\n

Tuitt, of Sutherland Road, Walthamstow, was given a concurrent sentence of one year for possession of a bladed article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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