Swaggering knife attacker poses in front of shop window after victim VIDEOS him
A swaggering knife attacker admires his reflection in a shop window - moments after stabbing a man three times at a tram stop in Wolverhampton.
Snarling Osama Hussain looks at the blood that covers his hands after the attack. But today he was jailed for nine years, after his victim took this mobile phone footage at the scene.
Hussain, 28, stabbed his victim in the arm and back, narrowly missing his spine.
British Transport Police said Hussain had been described as 'arrogant, cocky and agitated' by passengers on his tram journey to Wolverhampton on July 22.
He had been told to turn his music down and stop drinking by a conductor on the Metro, and he picked an argument with another passenger.
As he got off the tram at Bilston Central, a 32-year-old man from Birmingham accidentally knocked into him.
Hussain launched what was described as a tirade of abuse, following him up the stairs before 'raining down multiple blows on the man's head and body while holding a folding pocket knife'.
The injured victim filmed the Hussain, who was identified after appeals in the media.
He was arrested at his home on Sherborune Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, and admitted grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon.
At Birmingham Crown Court today he was jailed for nine years for wounding, and a year, to run concurrently for possession of an offensive weapon.
Dc Tim Friend from BTP said: "This was a completely unprovoked and callous attack which Hussain has offered no explanation for.
"This could have been a lot worse; if the stab wound on the back had been an inch to one side or had Hussain's fist, which concealed his knife, connected with the victim's head at a certain angle, the outcome would have been very different.
"However, this incident has left the victim with more than physical scars. It has deeply affected his outlook on life and he now feels constantly on edge, is fearful of leaving the house and suffers flashbacks.
"While nothing can repair the harm Hussain did that day, we hope this lengthy sentence goes some way to helping the victim rebuild his life and I would like to commend his quick thinking which gave us the footage that allowed Hussain to be quickly identified.
"Knives cost lives and we will do everything we can to trace offenders and put them before the courts who, as this case shows, are willing to take people like Hussain off the streets for a considerable amount of time to make the West Midlands a safer place for all."
