The man who was repeatedly st@bbed in a sickening attack that sparked riots in Northern Ireland lost his left eye in the near-beheading by a Sudanese suspect.
Stephen Ogilvie, 44, suffered injuries to both eyes after Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid, 30, allegedly tried to behead him late Monday night, the Sun reported.
Barbaric video footage showed Ogilvie being pinned under the knifeman, with a horrified witness heard crying, “He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off.”
Ogilvie suffered serious injuries to his right eye and had deep slash wounds in his head, face and back, the hearing in Belfast was told.
Alodid was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday on charges of attempted murd£r and possessing a blade.
He was arrested minutes after the assault and allegedly told emergency services, “I have k!lled someone. I don’t know if they are dead.”
The migrant, who reportedly exploited a legal loophole to get into the UK, is also accused of threatening to kill a radiographer on the same day as Monday’s attack, the hearing was told.
“I will kill you,” Alodid allegedly told the radiographer.
Alodid appeared on video and stayed silent during the hearing. He was denied bail and will next appear in court on July 8.
Police “strongly” opposed bail and a detective warned that potential future offenses could be “serious and unpredictable in nature.”
Judge Stephen Keown said the risks of granting Alodid bail were “far too great” due to the risks of reoffending and harm to the public.
The judge also noted that Alodid could be a flight risk. The migrant entered the UK via the Common Travel Area — an open-border zone which allows British and Irish citizens to travel freely.
The st@bbing sparked anti-immigration protests, which developed into riots across Northern Ireland Tuesday night with angry mobs hurling petrol bombs at cops and setting homes and cars alight.
Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s First Minister, said “groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” branding it “outright thuggery.”
Two officers were injured amid the disorder; Jon Boutcher, Northern Ireland’s chief constable, revealed in a press conference Wednesday, branding the protests an “act of self-harm.”
“What we saw last night was an insult,” he told reporters, ordering protesters to “take control” of their actions.
“It was an insult to the victim of the terrible attack that many of you will have watched online.”
