Eritrean Refugee Murdered Complete Stranger in London Street Before ‘Courageous’ Intervention by Skateboarders

Court hears killer was 'shot and tortured' after being conscripted into Eritrean army at age of 12

An undated image of Tedi Fanta Hagos, who killed Steve Dempsey in Oxford Street, central London, in July 2021. Metropolitan Police

LONDON—A jury has ruled an illiterate Eritrean who was granted asylum in Britain in 2019 murdered a complete stranger two years later in a random knife attack in one of London’s busiest shopping areas.

Tedi Fanta Hagos, 26, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of 60-year-old Steve Dempsey, who suffered fatal stab wounds as he walked past the Microsoft store in Oxford Circus, central London, on July 1, 2021.