Chilling second killer boards bus the place he stabbed love rival to demise

This is the chilling second a killer was captured on CCTV boarding a bus to stab a love rival to demise in entrance of terrified passengers.

Oscar Castano-Colque, 21, was jealous after his 17-year-old pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sanaa Taha, ended their relationship and began seeing 25-year-old Rafioullah Malik.

But as an alternative of accepting the top of their relationship, he bombarded her with texts declaring his love and saying their romance hadn’t ended.

Then after studying of Ms Taha and Mr Malik’s location, he put a knife up his sleeve and cycled throughout West London from his hostel on Wood Lane into the West End on February 28 final yr to hold out his assault.

Police managed to trace his actions on CCTV due to his distinctive crimson jacket

Footage reveals the second Castano-Colque tapped his contactless card on the bus earlier than heading to the highest deck to homicide Mr Malik with a flick knife at 10.11pm.

The brutal assault lasted 14 seconds and was proven at Croydon Crown Court in February this yr.

Mr Malik was badly damage within the assault, with a 6.5cm stab wound to his left temple that lower his carotid artery.

Sadly, he later died after three weeks in a coma when his life-support was lower off on March 21 final yr.

Witnesses informed police Castano-Colque was agitated, with nervous power, frantic and ‘showing to search for a particular individual’.

Castano-Colque had break up from his ex days earlier after Ms Taha suspected the 21-year-old was dishonest on her.

She despatched him a message saying ‘am gonna meet my daddy now’.

Later, she despatched a photograph of her eating with Mr Malik at a close-by Angus Steakhouse.

In the CCTV video on the bus, blood could be seen pouring from Mr Malik’s head on the ft of passengers who instantly jumped again in shock.

Then Castano-Colque ran downstairs adopted by Ms Taha and a dazed Mr Malik who was clutching his wound.

Witnesses stated they heard Ms Taha shout ‘What the hell are you doing?’ to which Castano-Colque replied ‘I’m harmful’.

Then the knifeman was seen banging on the bus, demanding to be let off.

When the bus stopped, he jumped off on Oxford Street and threw the homicide weapon within the nearest bin.

With Ms Taha following him, he then threw his blood-soaked jacket over some hoardings.

This was all caught on CCTV footage and police had been capable of retrieve the proof and hyperlink it to Castano-Colque with DNA evaluation.

More CCTV confirmed Castano-Colque and Ms Taha travelling from Oxford Circus to Uxbridge Road through the London Underground after which to a Sainsbury’s at round 10:40pm.

Detectives seen he had discarded a black jumper.

After going again to his hostel, he took a taxi to cover at an tackle in Camberwell the place he was later arrested.

Castano-Colque was charged with homicide and made no remark below questioning.

He pretended to be psychotic so he could be unfit for trial.

After claiming he was listening to voices, he managed to get the trial date postponed 4 instances.

But the police had been monitoring his ‘lucid’ jail telephone calls and the prosecution later used these recordings to debunk his lies – forcing the defence to ditch the psychiatrist’s opinion.

This meant he had no alternative however to plead responsible to the assault. 

Prosecutor Edward Brown KC informed the court docket: ‘It’s totally clear now, over many many months the defendant was searching for to deceive the psychiatrist making an attempt to help him.

‘He was making an attempt to determine a defence of diminished accountability on the premise of a lie.’

Jailing him for all times with a minimal time period of 25 years and 6 months, Judge Peter Gower KC informed Castano-Colque the ‘pointless and pointless’ assault was ‘savage and sustained’ towards a ‘respectful and nicely mannered man’.

‘I’ve little question you armed your self with a knife, not merely to have out there as a weapon, ought to the event come up, however to search out the person with Ms Taha and assault him, which is what you probably did once you set your eyes on him. What you probably did concerned pre-meditation which may solely be described as substantial,’ stated Judge Gower.

‘You knew what you had been doing and also you knew what was mistaken. In any occasion Ms Taha’s behaviour offers no justification to what you probably did, and Mr Malik had performed completely nothing to justify you attacking him and brutally murdering him in the way in which that you just did.’

Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Jolley stated: ‘Castano-Colque couldn’t settle for his relationship was over and his former girlfriend had moved on. On the day of the assault we tracked his actions on CCTV to focus on the bus Rafioullah Malik was on with a purpose to perform his vicious and decided assault.

‘After stabbing Rafioullah quite a few instances, Castano-Colque left the bus and tried to throw away his coat and the homicide weapon. In the speedy search after the incident, we recovered each of those key items of proof and DNA testing irrefutably linked Castano-Colque to the homicide.

‘This coupled with CCTV from on board the bus which captured the whole lot of this crime, meant Castano-Colque had no alternative however to plead responsible.’