Mohamed Ullah, a 35-year-old man from Hackney, east London, has admitted threatening to “kill Jewish schoolchildren” and “decapitate” them in a remark made on February 13. The threat was directed at Avani Hari, and Ullah pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday to making a threat to kill.
Guilty Pleas and Additional Charges
Ullah also pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment and to damaging a water dispenser, which caused a flood at Homerton Hospital in Hackney on the same day. He initially admitted these offences on June 5, but a reporting ban was imposed as he denied three assault allegations from the same date.
On Friday, reporting restrictions were lifted after Ullah pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman, Janet Chukwu. Prosecutors agreed to drop the other two assault charges.
Mental Health and Sentencing
Defence barrister Tom Kharran told the court: “The defendant at the time of the offending was about to be discharged as a patient from a mental institution, and he has been assessed as fit to plead.” Judge Daniel Fugallo ordered the probation service to assess Ullah’s dangerousness before his sentencing hearing on August 5.
Ullah chewed his nails throughout Friday’s hearing, listening via videolink from HMP Pentonville, and will remain in custody until sentencing.
