A TEENAGER who shouted “Allahu Akbar” shortly before she slashed a woman with a kitchen knife outside a pre-school has been given a suspended sentence.
Solie Essla, 19, left her house in Forest Road, Colchester, at 3.30pm on March 22 with an eight inch kitchen knife, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
Essla shouted : “I’ll kill you” and the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” which means: “God is great”, before running across the road towards two women, who were walking with a newborn baby in a pushchair, said Wayne Cleaver, prosecuting.
As she approached the women Essla lifted her arm and swung the knife at one of the women, striking her on the shoulder.
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Essla had then slashed the other woman three times on the lower part of her arm in a “stabbing motion”.
At an earlier hearing Essla admitted unlawful wounding, having a knife in Forest Road, Colchester and assaulting a woman by beating.
She was given 16 months detention in a young offenders’ institution suspended for two years and a 30 day rehabilitation activity requirement.
Recorder Paul Garlick said she had spent the Past six months in custody.
He said Essla was not suffering from psychosis and her risk of reoffending in the way the court had heard about was low.
