Mohammed Al Shaker Al Tamimi had served a London sentence for attempted rape before coming to Ireland in 2024 and at one point trying to claim asylum. Months later, he stabbed Aisha Noor Al Kattib ten times and murdered their eight-year-old daughter Malika as the child tried to save her mother. The judge ordered ten years for attempted murder to run before the mandatory life sentence begins.
The previous sentence and arrival
Al Tamimi is a Kuwaiti national. The Central Criminal Court was told that he had served a London prison sentence for attempted rape of another woman. The date and length were not reported.
He re-established contact with Aisha Noor Al Kattib and their daughter in 2023 and came to Ireland in August 2024, asking forgiveness and promising reform. RTÉ reported that he had at one point tried to claim asylum here. No public source establishes whether a formal application was completed, its outcome or his immigration permission.
The attack in New Ross
On 1 December 2024, Al Tamimi complained that Aisha and Malika did not respect him, checked Aisha’s phone, accused her and struck her. When she said she would leave, he took a knife and stabbed her.
Malika came downstairs and told him to stop. Her mother told her to run. Al Tamimi obtained a larger knife, caught the child after she fell and repeatedly stabbed her in front of her mother. Malika suffered multiple wounds and died despite emergency intervention.
Aisha suffered ten stab wounds, lost power in her legs, pulled herself towards the front door while calling 999, underwent surgery and initially required a wheelchair. She survived.
Two guilty pleas and exceptional consecutive terms
On 10 October 2025, Al Tamimi pleaded guilty to murdering Malika and attempting to murder Aisha. Mr Justice Paul McDermott imposed ten years for attempted murder and ordered that the mandatory life sentence begin only after that term. He said concurrent terms would be unjust because there were two victims and an extraordinary level of violence.
The sentencing structure means the ten-year determinate term precedes life. It does not establish a whole-life order or exact eventual parole date. No appeal, transfer or removal proceeding was located.
Chronology
- Before Ireland: London imprisonment for attempted rape.
- August 2024: Arrived in Ireland; attempted asylum claim reported.
- 1 December 2024: Aisha attacked and Malika murdered.
- 3 December 2024: Arrested after hospital discharge.
- 10 October 2025: Guilty pleas to murder and attempted murder.
- 15 December 2025: Ten years followed consecutively by life.
Cost benchmark
The expressly imposed ten-year term before life commences represents a gross capacity benchmark of €990,720 at the Irish Prison Service’s 2024 staffed-space average. The life-term cost is additional and indeterminate.
Questions the State should answer
- When and how was the London attempted-rape conviction known in Ireland?
- What exactly occurred with the reported asylum attempt?
- What risk information was available before he entered the family home?
- What lifelong support is available to the surviving victim?
- Will prisoner transfer or immigration enforcement ever be considered?