# Moment knifeman stands over victim and stabs him repeatedly – after he was freed from jail early following previous fatal knifing just 10 minutes away

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/moment-knifeman-stands-over-victim-and-stabs-him-repeatedly-after-he-was-freed-from-jail-early-following-previous-fatal-knifing-just-10-minutes-away/
- Published: 2026-11-05T15:56:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T16:03:30+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16268489/Moment-knifeman-victim-stabs-freed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Reece Williams received a life sentence for the 2025 stabbing.
- His victim suffered life-changing injuries in an eight-second attack.
- Williams had been released early after a 2018 manslaughter sentence.

## Summary

Reece Williams, 30, has been sentenced to life in prison after repeatedly stabbing Shaquille Coote in an unprovoked eight-second attack in King’s Cross. The case has renewed attention on Williams’s earlier conviction for a fatal stabbing and his early release from prison.

Coote, 27, suffered life-changing injuries in the September 2025 attack and was left at the scene; Williams’s brother Darrell drove him away and was jailed for at least eight years. CCTV helped identify the brothers, who admitted grievous bodily harm with intent and possessing a knife. Williams had been jailed for 12 years for the 2018 manslaughter of 20-year-old Marcel Campbell, about a ten-minute walk away, and was released early; his new life sentence has a minimum term of 12 years.

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