Dog-walker killer guilty of attempting to murder his landlord

Dawood Safi, 28, was found guilty of attempting to murder his landlord after a knife attack in west London that left dog-walker Wayne Broadhurst dead and a 14-year-old boy wounded. The verdict at Southwark Crown Court added another conviction to a case prosecutors described as a “frenzy of violence” in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge.

Wayne Broadhurst was 49 when he was stabbed to death on 27 October 2025. Safi admitted killing him on the opening day of his trial, and the Crown Prosecution Service said the attack was a random act of violence. Prosecutors told the court they relied on CCTV, DNA and bad character evidence to build the murder case against him.

The attempted murder conviction places Safi’s landlord at the center of the same incident that killed Broadhurst. Safi also admitted stabbing his landlord and the 14-year-old boy during the attack, showing that the violence did not stop with one victim on one street. The sequence left a dog-walker dead, a teenager injured and a landlord fighting for survival, all within the same burst of violence in Uxbridge.

The use of bad character evidence, alongside CCTV and DNA, suggests prosecutors presented the jury with a case that went beyond the aftermath of a single street attack and into Safi’s wider violent conduct. For Broadhurst’s family and for the people injured that day, the convictions confirm that the threat was not confined to one victim. The court’s findings now leave a clear record of how quickly the attack escalated and how many people it put in harm’s way.