'White supremacist' found guilty of attempted murder of Asian dentist

A self-confessed "white supremacist" who attacked an Asian dentist with a machete and hammer in a local Tesco store has been found guilty of attempted murder by a jury.

Zack Davies, 26, of Chester Street in Mold, had admitted wounding newly-qualified dentist Dr Sarandev Bhambra, 24, in Mold’s Tesco supermarket.

He had admitted intending to cause grievous bodily harm but had denied trying to kill.

Mold Crown Court heard Davies had laughed and shouted white supremacist slogans as he launched a racially motived attack with lethal force on an innocent customer at a Tesco store.

Davies told the jury how he had "lost it" and had done it as revenge for what happened to soldier Lee Rigby.

Mold Crown Court heard how white supremacist and Nazism material was found at his home.

Mold Crown Court heard Davies had told police he had been expelled from school when he was around 11 or 12 years old for taking a knife to school to attack a classmate.

After expulsion from Mold Alyn High he became isolated and his “paranoia and mistrust” of people began. He also claimed that rising Jihadi violence had fuelled his paranoia.

Asked whether he had attacked Dr Bhambra, because he believed he was a Muslim, he said:

Angela Jones, who was in the store with daughter Ceri, said she could hear the white man screaming “white power".

She saw him hit the Asian man around the head five or six times. “I thought he was going to kill him,” she said.

Dr Sarandev Bhambra of Leeds was working at Mold and was attacked with a machete and a hammer when he went to do some lunch time shopping.

The trainee dentist suffered life-changing injuries the brutal and unprovoked attack.

The court heard Davies followed Dr Bhambra because of his Asian appearance and attacked him with the machete and claw hammer which he had in a rucksack.

The terrified 24-year-old tried to escape up an aisle of the supermarket and his ordeal only ended when a former soldier stepped in his way and persuaded Davies to drop his weapons.

It was the prosecution case that Davies he had used the weapons skillfully and with force and that he would have killed the dentist but for the brave intervention of a customer.