A man has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged knife attack outside a supermarket which saw a television star come to the rescue.
Passersby and shoppers at Aldi in the Bevois area of Southampton saw a man allegedly brandishing a knife outside the shop on Sunday afternoon.
Large swathes of the supermarket car park were cordoned off by police after the incident, during which video captured the moment two police officers handcuffed a man on the pavement nearby.
Sohail Chowdhary, who appeared on The Apprentice in 2022, was one of the first people on the scene after three people were injured or threatened with a blade.
He told the Daily Echo he and three others tried to distract the suspect while others ran to safety.
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Sohail along with one of his colleagues at Limitless Martial Arts, the gym he owns, and two of his students, got involved to try and distract the alleged suspect while waiting for the police to arrive.
Describing how his staff and students reacted to the incident, he said: ‘I am just proud of these guys.
‘I wasn’t expecting that on a Sunday morning.’
Azzedvie Mahmoudi, 46, of Cobbett Road, Southampton, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, one of attempted GBH, three of threatening a person with a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place, and one of possessing a blade or sharp pointed article in a public place.
He is in custody and is set to appear at Southampton magistrates court this morning.
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