ReportHe Was Free on Bail Twice in a Week, Then He Murdered a GrandfatherAired September 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM UTCWritten September 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:11He stabbed a stranger in the back, then, while on bail, stabbed another to death.0:16A judge called him very dangerous.0:18Now the Metropolitan Police are asking whether they could have stopped him.0:21What did police know before the second attack?0:23On 10 September 2026, Rashid Rahman was sentenced to life imprisonment at Wood Green0:28Crown Court for the murder of Mark Carroll.0:30The minimum term is recorded two ways.0:32The Metropolitan Police's official statement says 27 years.0:35Courtroom reporting recorded 24 years and 59 days.0:39Which figure is the formal written term has not been resolved?0:41The killing took seconds.0:43On 10 April 2024, Rahman, then 19, came up behind 55-year-old Mark Carroll as he0:49walked with a friend in St.0:50Martin's Gardens, Camden.0:51He drove a five-inch kitchen knife into his back, severing his aorta.0:55Carroll died in hospital.0:57Police were called at 1337.0:59Rahman did not know him.1:00The knife had been signed out from Rahman's supported living accommodation in1:03Romford the day before.1:05He asked for it to prepare food.1:07Residents needed permission to hold sharp knives.1:10He never returned it.1:11In the days before the killing, Rahman had been arrested and released on police bail1:14twice.1:15On 7 of April, after a rampage on a Camden Canal towpath, where he punched and1:19kicked members of the public, threw a cafe sign and brandished a metal pole.1:23And separately, in connection with an alleged brick, thrown through a church office1:27window.1:27He was free on both when he used the knife.1:29Weeks earlier, on 21 of February 2024, in Ilford, Rahman followed Ayulian Kovaliuk1:35and his brother off the No.1:3686 bus.1:38He stabbed Ayulian in the back, then beat him with a wooden club, breaking his arm.1:42Kavaliuk reported the attack that day, but a delay in obtaining CCTV meant Rahman1:46was not identified until after the murder.1:49He was later convicted of wounding with intent.1:51At trial, Rahman was convicted of murder on 27 May 2026, along with carrying a1:57bladed article, threatening with an offensive weapon, and robbery.2:00Judge John Dodd KC rejected the defense's argument that mental health mitigated the2:04offense.2:05Defense counsel raised complex PTSD and claimed childhood trauma in Sudan and Libya.2:11a Boko Haram raid, his sister murdered, later enslavement, torture, and rape.2:15But the judge said the notes showed he was not then suffering a severe enduring2:19psychotic illness, that independent corroboration of the trauma history and even of2:23his age was lacking, and that mental health did not reduce the seriousness of the2:27offending.2:28There was no diminished responsibility defense.2:36In sentencing, the judge also called it a shocking and cowardly attack that left2:41Mark Carroll's family broken and grieving.2:43Mark Carroll, known to friends as Mogi, was a father of two and grandfather.2:47His daughter Danielle was 19 weeks pregnant when she learned he had been killed and2:50had to identify his body.2:52His daughter Aisha has been diagnosed with PTSD.2:54Both gave personal statements in court.2:56The family has been supported by the charity Hundred Families.2:59The unresolved development is the Metropolitan Police Preventability Review, opened3:03after the conviction to examine prior contact with Rahman in the days before the3:07murder and whether anything could have been done to prevent it.3:10No findings have been published.3:12Rahman, a Sudanese national, was told at sentencing that he would face deportation3:16on release from custody.3:17Initial reports carried the offender's name as Rashid Rahman and the victims as Mark3:22Carroll.3:23The names established by court and police records are Rashid Rahman and Mark3:26Carroll.3:27The Metz review is still open.3:29No findings have been published.3:30The question of whether anything could have been done remains unanswered.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗