A shopkeeper has been fined £500 for selling knives to a violent teenager - minutes before the youth carried out a brutal stabbing.
Shop worker Salman Capti, 26, sold two blades to a 17-year-old boy 10 minutes before he knifed a man seven times.
The victim survived the June 2014 attack in Clerkenwell, central London, but suffered serious injuries.
The assault took place on the Triangle estate near to the City Supermarket in Goswell Road, where Capti worked.
Capti, of Warley Street, Bethnal Green, received the fine after being convicted of selling two knives to an under-18 at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court.
He was also fined £100 for a second offence of breaching his licensing conditions, due to an inadequate CCTV set up, and ordered to pay a £50 victim surchage.
The company which owned the supermarket was also convicted over the underage knife sale, receiving a £750 fine and costs bill of £5,000.
Cllr Paul Convery, Islington Council’s executive member for community safety, criticised the sentence for being "extraordinarily lenient".
He said: "The knives sold by this shopkeeper were used in a potentially lethal assault on a young man. I am disappointed at the extraordinary leniency of the fine in such a serious case.
"There is an epidemic of knife-related crime in London, which has led to many deaths and injuries.
"A greater penalty in a case where the sale demonstrably resulted in a life-threatening attack could have impressed on other businesses their moral and legal duty to protect our young people."
CCTV footage showed the moment the 17-year-old - who cannot be named because of his age - entered City Supermarket about 10 minutes before the assault.
The youth was locked up for five years after pleading guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at Blackfriars Crown Court in September.
