Mohammed Alfatih convicted in UK knife attack

A UK jury has convicted Mohammed Alfatih, a man wanted in Germany over an alleged antisemitic plot, over a knife attack on a bailiff outside his home in central England.

Alfatih, 40, also known as Mohammed Naim, was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday of wounding an enforcement officer and two counts of unlawful possession of a knife.

The case concerned an October 2025 incident outside his UK home during a dispute over more than £2,250 in unpaid parking fines owed by his wife. Footage shown during the trial showed Alfatih with a knife at the broken window of a van. Bailiff Kevin Bucknall suffered a cut to the back of his head.

The jury was not told during the trial about reported links between Alfatih and Hamas. Multiple UK media outlets have reported that he was formerly a bodyguard for Hamas's leadership and the son of a senior official in the Palestinian militant group before being granted asylum in the UK and later British citizenship in 2020.

Alfatih is also wanted in Germany and is expected to face extradition proceedings at a London court. German prosecutors this year charged seven suspected Hamas members over an alleged plan for attacks in Germany and Austria to coincide with the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack in Israel. They identified one suspect as Mohammed A, described as the suspected ringleader; UK media reports have identified him as Alfatih.

German prosecutors said the suspect was arrested in London last November and had not yet been extradited. Alfatih is due to be sentenced on January 11.