By IRNA,
London : A woman stabbed Labour MP and former minister Stephen Timms twice at his east London constituency in revenge for his vote for the Iraq war, it was claimed in court Monday.
Prosecutors at London’s Old Bailey central criminal court said Roshonara Choudhry told police she wanted ‘to get revenge for the people of Iraq’ and wanted to kill the MP for “punishment”.
Choudhry, aged 21, stabbed Timms twice with a kitchen knife but she was restrained by the MP’s assistant. She is accused of attempted murder and having an offensive weapon.
‘When asked why she had stabbed him a second time she said ‘because I wasn’t going to stop stabbing until someone made me’,’ prosecutor William Boyce told the court.
Jeremy Dein, defending Choudhry who was not in court, said she did not recognise the jurisdiction of the court and did not wish her lawyers to challenge evidence put before the jury. The trial continues.