{"id":10014,"date":"2016-02-07T03:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2016-02-07T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T08:57:08","slug":"somali-man-sentenced-to-15-years-for-stabbing-woman-in-britain-and-fleeing-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10014","title":{"rendered":"Somali Man Sentenced to 15-Years for Stabbing Woman in Britain and Fleeing to Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_70187602_mahadaden2\"<\/a>A Somali man, who fled to Ethiopia after stabbing a young woman in Britain, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n

Mahad Aden<\/a>, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to wounding with intent.<\/p>\n

The incident reportedly happened on September 16, 2013 near Torcastle Close, Paradise Coventry. Aden and the victim, now 23, were reportedly in a \u201cclose, but not loving, relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim had agreed to meet Aden in her car after pressing charges against him for punching her face and smothering her with a pillow. However, the meeting turned violent after she refused Aden\u2019s plea for the charges to be dropped.<\/p>\n

Aden reportedly punched her face, pulled a knife from his sock and stabbed her repeatedly. He also kicked her repeatedly after she struggled out of the car. The carnage only stopped after two people showed up.<\/p>\n

The victim, who was eventually rushed to a hospital, sustained stab wounds to the face, neck, chest and hands. She also suffered a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n

After the fatal attack, Aden fled to Ethiopia<\/a> where he stayed until 2015 when he arrived back in the UK. He was arrested at Heathrow Airport after two years of evading justice.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate that following his arrest, Aden faced several charges including perverting the course of justice, witness intimidation, possessing a knife or bladed article in a public place and wounding with intent.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Coventry Crown Court which presided over Aden\u2019s case increased his sentence by four more years for \u201cpublic protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>The victim, whose identity has been withheld, read a touching statement<\/a> in court revealing Aden\u2019s death threats targeting her family. Aden reportedly threatened to \u201chunt and kill\u201d the victim and if he couldn\u2019t find her he would kill her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he started stabbing me I was still dazed. I put my hands up to my face and was looking down at the blood coming from my face,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew if I didn\u2019t get out of the car he would kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have scars on my body, face, chest, chin, neck and hands,\u201d she added. \u201cI can\u2019t bare look at myself in the mirror because of what I look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel people are staring at me and judging me. I feel like a body walking around with no soul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Somali man, who fled to Ethiopia after stabbing a young woman in Britain, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Mahad Aden, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to wounding with intent. The…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[4967,4654,64,1464],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10016,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/10016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}