Illegal immigrant Ousmane Camara stabbed Newport brothers in buttocks and chest after attacking sister

Ousmane Camara used a knife to inflict horrific injuries on Kristian and Kaylum Williams in Newport’s Victoria Crescent, the city’s crown court heard.

The 22-year-old student, from Guinea in West Africa, had a history of serious violence after arriving in Britain as a youth, prosecutor David Pinnell said.

In 2015 he was sent to a young offender institution for tying up and gagging a former partner in Newport after being convicted of assault and false imprisonment.

And while he was being held at Brook House immigration removal centre in Gatwick two years ago, he attacked officers with a pool cue and caused more than £20,000 of damage after going on the rampage.

Mr Pinnell said that during his latest conviction, ex-Nash College languages student Camara had slapped his then girlfriend Kara Williams on May 29, 2018.

Judge Daniel Williams heard she had then telephoned her family and her brothers arrived at the flat from Ringland to confront the defendant.

Mr Pinnell told the court that Camara told them he had hit their sister because he “felt like it” before arming himself with a penknife.

A fight broke out before he caused the two brothers serious injuries.

Kristian Williams suffered a 6cm long cut to the back of the neck that extended down into his skull and was also stabbed in the buttocks.

Kaylum Williams was knifed to the left side of his chest, sustaining a 3cm long injury.

Camara, formerly of Dean Street, Newport, was found guilty of two counts of unlawful wounding by a jury following a trial and was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon.

Marian Lewis, mitigating, said of her client: “He is desperate to return to his own country. He can’t work and he can’t form any meaningful relationships.

“He has no real life and wants to return home to Guinea.”

Judge Williams jailed Camara, who followed proceedings in French with the aid of a translator, for a total of four years.