GUILTY UK - Can Arslan, 52, found guilty of stabbing neighbor to death - 5 April, 2022

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Can Arslan found guilty of murdering neighbour

Can Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for 12 years before he stabbed Matthew Boorman 27 times.

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A man who subjected his neighbours to years of anti-social behaviour before stabbing one of them to death has been found guilty of murder.

Can Arslan, 52, lay in wait for Matthew Boorman as he came home from work then stabbed him 27 times on his front lawn.
It was the culmination of 12 years of threats to Arslan's neighbours in Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire.

After the verdict, Mr Boorman's wife Sarah released a statement in which she said his death was "truly shocking".

Paying tribute to the 43-year-old father-of-three, the statement praised his fundraising efforts for charity, hiking The Three Peaks with friends, gardening at a hospice and running half marathons.

One of Mr Boorman's children saw the attack unfold from an upstairs bedroom, the trial heard.
Arslan, who had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, then forced his way into the home of another neighbour, Peter Marsden, and knifed him eight times.

Arslan, who had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, then forced his way into the home of another neighbour, Peter Marsden, and knifed him eight times.

The trial heard the murder on 5 October came after Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for years.

Many of them were so worried about his behaviour they had installed security cameras that captured the killing, footage from which was used as evidence by police.

Other neighbours, including an off-duty police officer, confronted Arslan during the outbreak of violence.
At the time of the murder, Arslan was the subject of an injunction prohibiting him from threatening or abusing his neighbours, and had been served with a notice of eviction.

Small rows over parking and a scratch to a car had escalated to the point where Arslan had repeatedly threatened to attack or kill those living near him.

Arslan made counter-allegations, accusing the Boormans of racially abusing him.

Arslan had claimed that he heard voices, including that of his childhood teddy bear, telling him to kill, but expert psychiatrists told jurors that he was not psychotic and diagnosed him with a paranoid, unstable and antisocial personality disorder.

 

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Criminals locked up 'for life' in Bristol so far this year

Cases have included a woman found guilty of murdering her partner and a man described as "the monster who lived next door"

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He was described as "the monster who lived next door". And Can Arslan was caged for life with a minimum of 38 years.

Bristol Crown Court heard Can Arslan subjected neighbour Matthew Boorman to 12 years of abuse before fatally stabbing him outside their homes in Snowdonia Road, Walton Cardiff, Tewkesbury.

In a brutal rampage of violence that followed, Arslan stabbed Matthew's wife Sarah when she tried to help her husband. And he admitted trying to kill neighbour Peter Marsden.