A man has been found guilty of attempted murder over an attack on author Sir Salman Rushdie. The 77-year-old British-American writer was stabbed multiple times on a lecture stage in New York in 2022. Hadi Matar was accused of trying to kill Sir Salman. Following a trial in Chautauqua County Court, Matar was found guilty by a jury after less than two hours of deliberations.
He ran on to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution where the author was about to speak on 12 August 2022, and stabbed him more than a dozen times in front of an audience. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
