Dawood Safi Pleads Guilty to 2025 Manslaughter of Wayne Broadhurst as Psychosis Defense Is Accepted
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 13
Dawood Safi Pleads Guilty to 2025 Manslaughter of Wayne Broadhurst as Psychosis Defense Is Accepted
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 13
Summary
Dawood Safi, 28, admitted the manslaughter of 49-year-old Wayne Broadhurst over the 27 October 2025 fatal stabbing in Uxbridge after prosecutors accepted diminished responsibility.
Four mental health experts told the court Safi suffered a "complete mental collapse," was psychotic, hearing voices and unable to distinguish reality during what prosecutors called a "frenzy of violence."
Broadhurst, a dog walker Safi had never met, died at the scene from multiple stab wounds after Safi had already attacked his 45-year-old landlord, Shahzad Farrukh, and a 14-year-old boy earlier that day.
Safi will still face a jury trial at Southwark Crown Court on attempted murder charges over those two attacks, though he has already admitted lesser wounding and assault charges.
The prosecution said Broadhurst's family had wanted a murder conviction; jurors also heard Safi entered Britain in 2020, won asylum in 2022 and had lied about parts of his background.