Psychotic Who Stabbed Social Worker Carrying out Welfare Checks on 3 Children Sentenced

Judge says it was 'pure chance' unprovoked attack was not lethal

A still from a police body-worn camera of Sulai Man, who was armed with a knife, being tackled by a police officer in a block of flats in Wood Green, north London, on Aug. 6, 2021. Metropolitan Police

LONDON—A psychotic man who tried to kill a social worker who was conducting welfare checks on three children who were being home schooled during a COVID-19 lockdown has been given an indefinite hospital and restriction order.

Sulai Man, 34, was convicted in October of the attempted murder of 61-year-old Themba Nkomo, who was attacked in the hallway outside a flat in Wood Green, north London, on Aug. 6, 2021.