Good Morning Britain was interrupted live on air as the show issued an apology minutes after a major mistake during an update on the Belfast stabbing case. On Monday, June 8, chaos ensued after an attempted stabbing murder of Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast. The suspect in the violent attack has since been named as Hadi Alodid, 30. He appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, June 10, where he was charged with attempted stabbing, threats to kill an NHS radiographer, and possession of a knife.
However, the show was forced to come to a halt after guest host Paul Brand accidentally declared the victim dead live on air. Moments after the update, the camera panned to Ranvir Singh, who apologized on his behalf. She stated: 'We have to just say a quick apology from a report by Paul Brand, who said that the victim Stephen Ogilvie has died in the attack. I can confirm that he is currently receiving treatment in the hospital after being stabbed in his left eye.'
Earlier, the show welcomed senior news correspondent Jonathan Swain, who reported live from the Irish city after a second night of uproar. As he walked through streets littered with smoking vehicles and firework shells, he revealed that two police officers were injured after being hit by a petrol bomb. Other officers armed with riot gear charged gangs of masked rioters as they threw missiles and started fires.
Describing the conflict that ensued overnight, the presenter revealed: 'We're about eight or nine miles north of Belfast here at a place called Glengormley, and water cannons were used for the first time in these sorts of riots, trying to control the crowd and push them back. At the end of this road, there is a hotel used by migrants, and that's where the protesters were aiming for, but the police managed to pull them back here. There were other protests across Northern Ireland, anti-immigration protests, though largely peaceful.'
'But certainly not here, and certainly not the other night when we saw people's homes being burnt, people having to flee their burning houses. There were campaigns online trying to target the homes of migrants, but local people born and bred here in Northern Ireland were caught up in the violence.'
On Wednesday, June 10, Alodid appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court charged with the attempted stabbing murder of Stephen Ogilvie, threats to kill an NHS radiographer on the same day, and possession of a knife. During the hearing, Alodid, with an address at Duncairn Avenue in Belfast, appeared via videolink. He refused legal representation, the judge was told, and made no reply to the charges put to him through an interpreter. A detective told the court that a man injured in the stabbing attack on Monday has lost his left eye.
