A second man has been charged after an Omani student was stabbed to death near Harrods in Knightsbridge.
Arseboon Dilbaro, 22, was charged on Tuesday with murdering 20-year-old Mohammed Al-Araimi on December 5 last year.
Dilbaro was arrested earlier the same day after arriving at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Egypt.
Mr Al-Araimi was attacked as he walked home from a restaurant. The King’s College politics and economics student was knifed in the back and collapsed beneath a Christmas tree in Hans Crescent, near an entrance to Harrods.
A friend of the victim - also aged 20 - was also found suffering injuries. He was taken to hospital for treatment and was later discharged.
Mr Al-Araimi was the son of Sheikh Abdullah Al Araimi who founded one of the Middle East’s biggest property empires.
Sheikh Al Araimi’s Al Raid Group opened the £130 million Al Araimi Boulevard shopping centre in Muscat in 2018, which was modelled on Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush.
The family, said to be close to Oman’s ruling dynasty, reportedly spend much of the year in London and own a number of apartments in a block in Knightsbridge opposite Hyde Park.
Dilbaro was also charged on Tuesday with grievous bodily harm with intent, attempted robbery and threatening a person with a blade in a public place.
He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
It comes months after Badir Rahim Alnazi, 24, was charged with murder, attempted robbery and possession of a bladed article on January 9.
Rahim Alnazi appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in January and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey.
His next court appearance date is yet to be set.
