LONDON: London police on Saturday charged a 29-year-old homeless man with causing grievous bodily harm and possessing an illegal knife he used to stab a mosque leader during prayers.
Suspect Daniel Horton stabbed London Central Mosque's muazzin Raafat Maglad during daily prayers on Thursday.
London police quickly ruled out a terror motive.
Maglad was treated at a London hospital and returned to the mosque for Friday´s evening service with his arm wrapped in a sling,
"I forgive him. I feel very sorry for him," Maglad told reporters on Friday.
"To me, as a Muslim, I don´t need to put any hatred in my heart."
Several regulars at the Regent´s Park area mosque in northwest London said they had seen Horton attend a few services in the past year. Horton will appear at Westminster Magistrates´ Court for a preliminary hearing later Saturday.
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