Anthony Ehsan, 24, has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbing death of a uniformed British Army officer near Brompton Barracks in Kent, England, on Tuesday.
Anthony Ehsan was charged by Kent Police on Thursday morning and appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court a short time later. Kent Police said Ehsan, who was arrested on Tuesday, was charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
No information about Esan’s background has been officially released, but he is a traditional ethnic group with a unique language from southern Nigeria.
Lt. Col. Mark Teton was stabbed multiple times in Brompton, Kent, on Tuesday afternoon. The attack took place just metres from Brompton Barracks, where the officer works as an instructor at the Royal Military Engineer School, as Teton’s wife tried to stop it. The officer survived the attack, but suffered 12 knife wounds and is in a “serious but stable” condition.
The attacker was seen on security cameras fleeing the scene on a moped-type bicycle. The man, identified by Kent police as Ehsan, was arrested within 35 minutes of the attack at a home on Mooring Road in Rochester. Counter-terrorism police are assisting with the investigation but the attack has not yet been officially declared a terror incident and police say they are keeping an “open mind” as to a motive.
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