Man who beat up Orthodox Jews in Hackney given hospital order

From the Jewish Chronicle

A man has been sentenced to detention in a secure medical facility for carrying out a series of brutal attacks on members of the Jewish community in Hackney.

Abdullah Qureshi, 30, of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was found guilty last November of attacking two men and a 14-year-old boy as he walked through north London in August last year.

In one of the assaults, he hit a teacher in the head with a bottle while playing Arabic music from his phone.

He was handed a hospital order at Wood Green Court on Thursday, after being convicted of the attacks in November 2022. He will be detained until he is considered safe to be released. He was also given a ten-year restraining order.

Qureshi was found guilty of one count of racially or religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault.