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He stabbed a Cardiff shopkeeper over a fake \u00a350 note(Image: South Wales Police)<\/p>\nAbdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed was already wanted by police in Dorset for a stabbing thereHe stabbed a Cardiff shopkeeper over a fake \u00a350 note(Image: South Wales Police)<\/p>\n
A man who stabbed a shopkeeper in Cardiff after he was caught trying to use a fake \u00a350 note has been jailed. Abdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed, 21, was already wanted by police in Dorset following a stabbing there.<\/p>\n
He was arrested by South Wales Police<\/a> after they used retrospective facial recognition technology to identify him. Police said Al-Ahmed had been charged in May 2023 with possession with intent to supply crack cocaine when he was 17 and living in Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n He failed to turn up at court for sentencing, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n Two months later, in July 2023, while he was on the run from police, he stabbed a man multiple times in Dorset following a dispute over a watch.<\/p>\n At some point Al-Ahmed had returned to Wales and on December 15, 2023, he tried to use a fake \u00a350 note to buy crisps and a drink at the Unistop shop on Salisbury Road.<\/p>\n The shopkeeper explained to Al-Ahmed the note was fake, but Al-Ahmed insisted on being given change and an argument broke out.<\/p>\n As he was being ushered out of the shop, Al-Ahmed reached for a knife in his coat pocket and stabbed the shopkeeper in the stomach.<\/p>\n He left the shopkeeper for dead and ran away from the scene.<\/p>\n The shopkeeper was taken to hospital for a serious injury which required urgent surgery.<\/p>\n An investigation was launched and within hours the suspect was identified using the shop\u2019s CCTV with retrospective facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n His fingerprints were also detected on the packet of crisps and a drink container which he had thrown on the floor of the shop.<\/p>\n Six days later, on Friday, December 22, officers identified an address in Pen Y Waun Road, Cardiff, and conducted arrest enquiries. Al-Ahmed was inside the address and arrested.<\/p>\n While in custody he was identified by his victim at Cardiff Bay<\/a> Police station. Al-Ahmed was charged with multiple offences including two counts of section 18 wounding with intent and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray, possession of a bladed article and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.<\/p>\n