This is the mugshot of the drink driver who mowed down a ten-year-old girl then left her for dead.
04.08.2023 - 16:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A coward who murdered the teenage son of his estranged partner - before trying to flee the country on a dinghy - has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years. Suleman Altaf, 45, also tried to murder his ex during the horrific attack at her home in Miles Platting.
Jakub Szymanski, 15, died after he heroically stepped in and saved his mother Katarzyna Bastek as Altaf stabbed her. Altaf was discovered almost 24 hours later on a dinghy in the English channel and had to be rescued by an RNLI crew.
Following a trial at Manchester Crown Court, he was found guilty of Jakub’s murder. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Ms Bastek, who suffered serious injuries, and of possessing a knife in a public place.
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Jurors heard Altaf and Ms Bastek were previously been in a relationship and shared a child. The pair had been involved in Family Court proceedings over the boy, as Altaf unsuccessfully tried to gain access to his son.
He turned up to Ms Bastek’s home uninvited at about 9.15pm on June 9 last year, armed with a knife. Before arriving at the property on Bednal Avenue, he was seen 'walking the streets' around the house for more than three hours wearing a baseball cap, a face mask and latex gloves.
Altaf then let himself into the house and repeatedly stabbed Ms Bastek, who desperately called out to her son for help. Jakub ran downstairs and as he tried to fight off the attacker, he was brutally stabbed in the neck. He was pronounced dead around an hour later.
Altaf fled and took a taxi to Slough, where he was living at the time. He then drove south to Dover, before boarding a dinghy on the English Channel. At about 6.18pm the
This is the mugshot of the drink driver who mowed down a ten-year-old girl then left her for dead.
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