"We were absolutely distraught. We pleaded and pleaded with them not to do it, but their mind was made up. That tree was coming down."
In a statement read out to the court, his the victim's wife said: "He is confused and fearful – he feels that he has lost all faith in the system."
The video shows a white man racially abusing her and other black and Asian people on the train.
"There was a time I’d go through things like this and brush it under the carpet but them times are over,"he said.
Patrick McDonagh, 21, stabbed aspiring engineer Abubakar Abbas, 22, in the neck just minutes after meeting him for the first time.
“Because my car isn't a show off Range Rover or some other 4x4 for popping the kids to and from school."
“For me, they need to dismantle and break down the whole system, and they need to put new people in there to build it from the top up because to me it’s too far gone."
“I thought we had moved on from these kinds of things."
“Your actions came at a time when the country has been under the most challenging and difficult times because of the Covid pandemic, when people have rallied together and raised the morale of the NHS staff."
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