Babah Sesay, the man who went on a rampage with what was described as a “Rambo knife” at a Beddington warehouse last January, has pleaded guilty to all charges related to the attacks.
Awaiting sentencing: Beddington warehouse attacker Babah Sesay
Sesay, 31, of Rodney Estate, Southwark, pleaded guilty to 10 charges related to the horrifying incident when he appeared at Croydon Crown Court last week.
On a Thursday morning in January, Sesay burst into the Sainsbury’s and Argos distribution depot on Marlowe Way on the Beddington trading estate, where he had once worked, and attacked several ex-colleagues.
Five people – a man in his 50s, two in their 30s and two men in their 20s – required hospital treatment as a result of the attack, and Sesay was taken to hospital, too, with what the police described as “minor injuries”, after his frenzied assault was halted by a have-a-go hero wielding a fire extinguisher.
Sesay was charged with five counts of wounding with intent, two counts of aggravated burglary, one count of actual bodily harm, one count of assault by beating and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.
Leading the fightback had been Joseph Denton, 29, who as he drove home after an unusual day at work was interviewed by TV news reporters.
With a bandage around his little finger, Denton was able to show his injury to the cameras, saying that the knifeman had “sliced my finger open”.
‘Horror stabbing’: five people were hurt when a man using a ‘Rambo knife’ went on the attack in an Argos despatch centre
Denton said: “I was there for an audit and the company basically started shouting and saying: ‘He’s back.’
“He didn’t say a word. He was trying to kill me and I’d never seen him before in my life.”
Denton, from Raleigh, Essex, said that the man was armed with a large knife with serated edge, describing it as a “Rambo knife”.
He said: “He stabbed two people in the chest, one had a big gash in his arm. I think someone in the side as well.
“I tried to lock the door, but where I couldn’t I had to just confront him and fight him basically.
“I got him on the floor and decided to hit him with a fire extinguisher, which sort of calmed everything down.
“And then people rushed in because he was on the floor at that point, and then we all just carried on attacking him until he left.
“I didn’t really have a choice to be honest. There’s one door he was coming through. So, there’s nowhere to go anyway, so I had to confront him.
“He had his thing just stabbing at me like a serial killer.”
Sesay will be sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Thursday, June 5.
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