A robber who stabbed two men and threw a teenage girl over a stairwell balcony after a fight broke out at a house party has been jailed for 14 years.

Yusuf Ali, 20, was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent after pushing the then 17-year-old Faduma Ibrahim over a barrier in a block of flats on August 4, 2019.

She fell 50 feet, suffering fractures to her neck, pelvis and at least three vertebrae as well as two collapsed lungs. Judge Nicholas Ainley said it was ‘a miracle that she survived at all’.

On Wednesday, a court heard the incident took place during a house party at a rented flat in the Empire Square apartments on Long Lane, Southwark.

The party was held while Ali was awaiting trial for his role in a robbery on a phone shop on May 20, 2018.

Judge Ainley said: ‘This was going to be a pre-trial party. Some girls came along after midnight having heard about the party. Among them was Faduma Ibrahim.

‘You didn’t know her, she didn’t know you, she just heard about a party and came along.

‘There was some sort of argument between you and Faduma which was caused when you snatched off the wig she was wearing.’

Judge Ainley said a group of men ‘obviously in a different group’ arrived at around 9am and a fight broke out unrelated to the victim.

The then 19-year-old Ali grabbed a knife and stabbed two men as other partygoers fled the property.

Judge Ainley said: ‘Faduma Ibrahim had run away, she had run around the corner from where those two men were stabbed and she got herself to an area where there was a balcony on her right-hand side and the lifts on her left.

‘What you did was you ran up to her, she was small and slight and she had no weapons. She was not a threat to you.

‘You threw her over the balcony down the lightwell that was immediately beside her, the lightwell that goes all the way to the ground.’

He added Miss Ibrahim required the use of a wheelchair for several weeks as part of her extensive recovery.

After throwing her over the barrier, Ali tried to leave the building but was arrested by police officers at the scene.

Ali, of Corry Drive, Lambeth, south London, was convicted of affray and possession of a bladed article in addition to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and the unrelated charge of robbery.

He was found not guilty of attempted murder.

The two men who were stabbed did not assist in the prosecution, the judge said, leading to the charge of affray rather than more serious charges.

Passing sentence, Judge Ainley said: ‘I am quite sure having heard the trial and having read what I have read that you are a highly dangerous young man.’

Ali, who appeared at the Skype hearing from HMP High Down will first serve half of a four-year sentence for the robbery.

He will then serve at least two-thirds of an extended 10-year sentence and will be released at the discretion of the parole board.

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