One of Ahmed Alid’s housemates told police the defendant was previously turned down for asylum in Germany
A Moroccan asylum seeker on trial for stabbing a pensioner to death in the street and attempting to murder a Christian convert in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict told police he would have killed “thousands” if he had a rifle, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Ahmed Alid, 45, is on trial for the death of 70-year-old Terence Carney, a stranger whom he allegedly stabbed in Hartlepool town centre on October 15 2023, eight days after the Hamas attacks on Israel.