In the new footage linked to the Golders Green stabbing, the suspect is seen pacing down the street holding a knife and lunges at a passerby as a man warns people from his car
16:28, 30 Apr 2026Updated 16:55, 30 Apr 2026
Locals spot Golders Green suspect
A new video linked to the Golders Green stabbing shows people in a car shouting warnings to others as a man runs down the street holding a knife.
In the clip, filmed in the area yesterday moments before two men were stabbed, a man holding a camera is heard shouting in Hebrew from his car and honking his horn as the suspect runs along the pavement, his knife in full view. At one point in the footage, the man with the knife appears to lunge at someone who runs behind a car. It ends with the man walking into the road. The suspect was today named as Essa Suleiman.
Police across the country have stepped up patrols in response to the double stabbing that saw two Jewish men – Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Ben Baila, 76, named locally as Moshe Shine – rushed to hospital.
The man is seen running down the street as another man in a car warns pedestrians
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The new footage, which was filmed from inside a car, captured the occupants of the vehicle frantically shouting “go go go!” as they drove towards the man. The man, at one point in the video, turns towards the camera and looks directly at the car while traffic roared down the busy street on which they were travelling.
Both men are said to be in a stable condition. It comes after it emerged that the man suspected of carrying out a knife attack in north London was previously referred to the Government’s counter-extremism programme.
The video was filmed from a car
The 45-year-old was born in Somalia and came to the UK legally as a child in the 1990s, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said earlier on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police said he was known to Prevent and that a referral had been made in 2020 which was closed in the same year.
Prevent is a multi-agency programme forming a key part of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy, placing a legal duty on public bodies to identify and support individuals who may turn to extremism. In a statement on Thursday afternoon, the force said: “Given the investigation remains ongoing, we will not be providing any further information in respect of this matter at this time and we remain focused on securing justice for the victims of this attack.”
The man at one point can be seen looking into the camera
Prime Minister Keir Starmer was heckled by around 100 poster-waving protesters as he arrived at a Golders Green Jewish community ambulance centre this afternoon to meet emergency services who responded to the attack. The Labour leader, who was joined by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and local MP Sarah Sackman, held a roundtable with first responders and leaders from Jewish volunteer groups Shomrim and Hatzola, whose ambulances were targeted in an arson attack last month.
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis called for “meaningful action” to tackle the “root causes” of antisemitism while the Board of Deputies of British Jews said antisemitism must be “confronted, punished and deterred with the full force of the state”.
The suspect appears to lunge for someone
Greater Manchester Police said it had deployed extra officers around the city, with a “high-visibility presence within our Jewish communities in north Manchester, Bury and Salford”. West Yorkshire Police and Thames Valley Police both said they would increase patrols to “provide additional reassurance”.
In London, counter-terrorism officers investigating the attack said they were also searching an address in the south east of the city after it was reported the suspect had been involved in a prior “altercation” with another person. The Met Police said detectives are investigating a separate incident in south-east London reported several hours before the Golders Green attack.
Protests were held near a Jewish community centre today(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Police were called to an incident at an address in Great Dover Street, SE1, at around 8.50am. The force said: “The suspect who is reported to have been armed with a knife, is believed to have had an altercation with the occupant before leaving.
“The occupant received minor injuries and police arrived within around six minutes of being called. It is believed that the suspect in this incident is the same individual arrested in Golders Green.”
