Brighton stabbing: No early release for Shahid Hamid jailed for almost killing former schoolmate at party

A man who stabbed his long-time friend in a drug-fuelled attack at a Brighton party, leaving him for dead, has lost an appeal to get out of jail early.

Shahid Hamid has lost his appeal against a ten year sentence for almost killing a man at a Brighton party in 2017.

A former Swinburne University student who stabbed his ex-roommate at a Brighton party, leaving him for dead, has lost an appeal to get out of jail early.

Shahid Hamid was last May sentenced in the County Court to a maximum ten years’ jail after pleading guilty to recklessly causing serious injury.

Hamid ambushed his victim Rollin Shah outside a party at a Brighton home on February 10, 2017.

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The uninvited Hamid stabbed Shah with a bladed knuckleduster several times during a frenzied attack.

Shah yelled out that he had been “stabbed in the neck and was going to die” but Hamid, who admitted to being on ecstasy, meth, opiates and an antidepressant at the time, just walked away.

Shah underwent emergency surgery at The Alfred hospital.

He was found to have a laceration 10-15cm deep to the left side of his neck which caused significant blood loss.

A forensic medical officer who assessed Shah said if he had not received timely medical intervention he may have died as a result of “catastrophic blood loss”.

Shah also had a piece of his ear completely severed, a 20-25 centimetre stab wound to his middle back, and an 8-10 centimetre laceration above his left elbow.

Shah said he suffers from depression, anxiety, nightmares and loss of sleep.

He also finds it difficult to trust people or develop new friendships because his attacker was “somebody that he had known for a long time and treated like family”.

The two men knew each other after sharing a room at a Malaysian boarding school and Shah had been in a relationship with Hamid’s sister.

Hamid’s belief Shah had “dishonoured” his sister was his motive for the attack.

He sent text messages in the days leading up to the attack which read: “My ex brother in law is in Melb” and “Im going to send him back with a dog scar”.

Supreme Court judges Justice Simon Whelan and Emilios John Kyrou took into account Hamid’s prior criminal history before they dismissed his appeal last month.

Hamid was jailed in 2011 for an unprovoked 2009 attack where he left a stranger with life-threatening injuries after stabbing him on a city street.

Hamid must serve a minimum seven years before being eligible for parole.

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