A 50-year-old man who mistook a 19-year-old Bulgarian man for a Muslim when him stabbed him through a car window has been jailed for 18 years and nine months.
Vincent Fuller lunged at Dimitar Mihaylov’s head and neck with a knife in a Tesco car park in Stanwell in March, the day after the Christchurch terror attack, which left 50 people dead.
The teenager was left with a superficial wound to the neck and a 4cm laceration to his left hand which he raised as he tried to defend himself.Prosecutors treated the incident as terrorism because Fuller was allegedly heard shouting “white supremacy” and “I’m going to kill Muslims” in the hours leading up to the attack.
He is also said to have expressed agreement with the Christchurch
terror attack the previous day.
Fuller pleaded guilty attempted murder, causing racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence over an alleged incident with his neighbour, who is of Indian heritage, and affray and possession of an offensive weapon after using the
baseball bat to indiscriminately attack occupied cars.