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The Cumberland Hotel
On Tuesday, a jury at Southwark Crown Court in London convicted Philip Spence, 33, of attempted murder. He will be sentenced next month, and Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: “I will have to consider a full life term.”
A man is facing a life sentence after he was found guilty of trying to kill three Emirati sisters in a central London hotel.
The three sisters were beaten in a “sustained and vicious” hammer attack as they slept with their young children in the four-star Cumberland hotel at Marble Arch.
Khuloud Al Najjar, 36, and her sisters Ohoud, 34, and Fatima, 31, were left for dead in their London hotel room in the early hours of April 6.
On Tuesday, a jury at Southwark Crown Court in London convicted Philip Spence, 33, of attempted murder. He will be sentenced next month, and Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: “I will have to consider a full life term.”
Spence also ransacked the sisters’ room and fled with cash and valuables, including iPads, gold jewellery and mobile phones.