Edgware Road fatal stabbing was like 'Wild West', court told

Mohamed Abdi, 21, was allegedly stabbed by Awad Abdel Samad, 24, during an outbreak of violence on central London’s bustling Edgware Road on the evening of last June 4.

Opening Samad’s murder trial on Wednesday (September 3) prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC said there was “a lot going on” in CCTV which captured events at about 10.40pm.

He told jurors: “It is, you might have thought, like something from the Wild West.”

The incident involved the occupants of two cars who knew each other and were heading in the same direction in heavy traffic.

He said: “Their coming together, in that moment, led to an immediate outbreak of serious armed violence, in full view of terrified passers-by and, importantly, in full view of a CCTV camera.”

Samad was in the front passenger seat of a Seat Leon, whic