Hotel where Channel migrant stayed before stabbing a teenager trends now
This is the £100-a-night taxpayer-funded hotel just 500 yards from Bournemouth's beach that an Iraqi immigrant blamed for him stabbing a student in the hope he would be deported.
Rebaz Mohammed, 28, was staying at the three-star Roundhouse Hotel, a five minute walk from the seaside town's seafront, when he stopped stranger Ellis Wheeler, 18, to ask him a question before knifing him in the back last December.
Mohammed carried out the attack hoping it would get him deported from the UK, the court heard, where he had arrived illegally by crossing the Channel in a small boat.
The court heard he had grown disenchanted with life in the Bournemouth hotel, which boasts of its 'individually decorated' bedrooms situated 'just a short walk' away from the town's local attractions.
Mohammed, who has a string of previous convictions including a prison term, then chased the Solent University student, who managed to run away before passing out.
Southampton Crown Court heard that Mohammed carried out the attack hoping it would get him deported from the UK, where he had arrived illegally by crossing the Channel in a small boat. He had grown disenchanted with life in a taxpayer-funded Bournemouth hotel and complained of having 'no work or money', the court heard.
CCTV footage released today shows the Iraqi stopping him to ask if Mr Wheeler knew anything about kickboxing. He then pulled a kitchen knife from his coat before plunging it into the teenager's back, puncturing his lung.
Rebaz Mohammed, 28, was staying at the three-star Roundhouse Hotel on the Bournemouth seafront when he attacked Ellis Wheeler, 18, last December
The court heard he had grown disenchanted with life in the Bournemouth hotel (pictured)
Mohammed (pictured) stabbed the Solent University student as he was walking through a park in Southampton hoping it would get him deported back to Iraq
The young man was taken to hospital where he had surgery. A ‘heroic’ friend put pressure on the wound while dialling 999, and was thanked by a judge for saving his life. Mr Wheeler missed his exams and still struggles to sleep because of anxiety attacks.
It comes with the backdrop of a mooted crackdown on cross-Channel migration by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who is due to introduce her Illegal Migration Bill to Parliament on Monday.
The new legislation would deport bar asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on unauthorised small boats to a safe third country and ban them from ever returning to the UK.
Today, MailOnline asked the Home Office whether Mohammed will be deported, and if so, when. However, officials declined to reveal the information, saying they 'did not comment on individual cases'.
Mohammed apparently felt aggrieved that he had no money to get home, so hoped a very serious crime would mean the British government would fly him back to Iraq immediately.
Andrew Houston, prosecuting, said Mohammed had spoken to people who knew the immigration system ahead of the attack.
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