Jurors watched footage of murder of Hartlepool pensioner

Ahmed Ali Alid was caught on CCTV hunting down Terence Carney before repeatedly stabbing him as the 70-year-old could be heard screaming "No, no, no".

The 45-year-old targeted the pensioner just minutes after he had attacked one of his housemates, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Armed officers managed to track down the suspect as he wandered around Hartlepool town centre in the early hours of October 15 last year.

Crime scene investigators working in Hartlepool (Image: NNP)

Jonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, said the extremist told police “if he had had a machine gun, and more weapons, he would have killed more victims”.

The jury watched the CCTV footage of Alid plunging the knife into the defenceless pensioner as he screamed for mercy.

Mr Sandiford said: “Despite Mr Carney’s injuries, he appears to have been able to get to his feet and move a short distance along Tees Street to the junction with Raby Road where he collapsed and died.”

The barrister said police discovered Mr Carney as they headed to the suspect’s home on Wharton Terrace, Hartlepool, but were unable to revive the pensioner.

A post-mortem examination established that Mr Carney had been stabbed six times in the chest, abdomen and back.

A cordon in place near the town's police station (Image: NNP)

The court heard how minutes before the fatal stabbing, Alid had armed himself with two knives and attacked his housemate, Javed Nouri, in his bed before wandering the streets of Hartlepool looking for another victim.

A 999-call to the police captured the sounds of Alid attacking Mr Nouri while they fought inside the terraced property housing asylum seekers.

A photograph of a long-blue handled knife, which had snapped in half, was covered in blood after it was recovered from inside the property.

Mr Nouri and two other housemates believed that Alid followed an extreme version of Islam and started to keep a knife with him after watching coverage of the attacks by Hamas on Israel.

The scene in Hartlepool where Mr Carney was fatally stabbed (Image: PA)

Mr Sandiford said Mr Nouri and the two other residents of the shared house raised concerns about the defendant’s behaviour with the police and housing managers.

The barrister told the jury that those complaints provided a further motive to launch his violent attack on Mr Nouri and stabbed him six times.

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Jurors heard how after he was arrested, he told police “if he had had a machine gun, and more weapons, he would have killed more victims”.

The prosecutor said Alid told police officers he had wanted to kill them because of the conflict in Gaza and to further his desire that Palestine would be free from the Zionists, by which he meant Israel.

Alid, of Wharton Terrace, Hartlepool, denies murder, attempted murder, and two charges of assaulting an emergency worker.

The trial continues.