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Mohamed Rahman stabbed PC Joseph Gerrard in the neck and chest, and PC Alannah Mulhall in the arm early on September 16 last year after a police chase.
A group of officers chased the 25-year-old thief after a member of the public, Mark Graven, told police the defendant had showed him a knife before taking his phone powerbank in Shaftesbury Avenue.
Over the course of the police pursuit – which led them to Leicester Square and during which Pava spray and Tasers were unable to contain the defendant – Rahman stabbed both PC Mulhall and PC Gerrard with a kitchen knife he had appropriated, and inflicted a cut to PC Richard Ulla’s finger.
Rahman, of Westbourne Park Road in Notting Hill, was convicted in October after a trial at Kingston Crown Court of the attempted murder of PC Gerrard and grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent against PC Mulhall.
He was also convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against PC Ulla, two counts of threatening a person in a public place with a bladed article against two other officers and possession of a bladed article.
Rahman was further found guilty of robbing Mr Graven.
The officers, who were attached to the Met’s Central West Command Unit responsible for policing Westminster, have both told how they experienced enduring pain and extensive changes to their lives after the incident.
He was given a minimum term of 20 years, minus the 449 days he has already spent on remand.
He added: “Anyone who is unhinged enough to attack a group of police officers …poses an even greater risk to the public.”
PC Gerrard said in a statement made in February, read by the prosecution in court, that he was “in agony every single day” for months and that his…
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