UK man detained for knife attack on immigration law firm

A British Nazi sympathiser who targeted a prominent immigration lawyer in a knife attack was on Thursday sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital.

Cavan Medlock, 32, took a knife, handcuffs, a Nazi flag and a Confederate flag to the London office of law firm Duncan Lewis in September 2020 and demanded to see Toufique Hossain, the firm’s head of public law.

Hossain has represented claimants in a number of high-profile court cases, including legal challenges to Britain’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Prosecutors said Medlock intended to restrain Hossain and display the two flags in the office’s windows as a “rallying cry” for others with extreme right-wing views.

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