Stabbed wife had ‘blood all over’

AN Aussie dad has recalled the panic-stricken phone call he received from his wife after she was randomly stabbed while pushing their toddler in a pram in South London.

Greg Conlon, of Sydney, rushed to the street where his wife Josephine was knifed seven times in the face and neck, allegedly by a man who had been released from jail just six days earlier.

Mrs Conlon, 36, was walking in Downton St in the suburb of Streatham Hill with her then 21-month-old daughter after having lunch with her husband and his parents, Peter and Sandra, who were visiting from Australia.

“There was blood all over her face. She had a gash just under her right eye,” Mr Conlon’s police statement said of finding her at the scene.

Of the earlier phone call, he told officers: “As soon as I answered, she immediately said to me: ‘I have been stabbed.’ She was quite frantic.”

Mark Brazant, 44, handed himself into Wandsworth police station at 1.30am on January 2, three days after the attack, the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London heard.

He was charged attempted murder but challenged that, claiming with has his schizophrenia meant he did not have the capacity to intend to kill Mrs Conlon. The mother of three was pushed into a driveway during the attack at 5.23pm last December 30.

She said she let out “bloodcurdling” screams as she ducked and weaved Brazant’s stabbing blows, which she said felt like punches.

“He just started to hit me and there were lots of blows. I think it was at that point that I realised I was being stabbed,” Mrs Conlon said.

“I was ducking and trying to get away after trying to get up onto my feet. He was crouching above me.”

Mrs Conlon said she was clinging to the pram when the attack began, but it rolled away into a parked car.

Mrs Conlon managed to get to her feet and Brazant fled, as neighbours came to help her after hearing her screams.

Brazant was released from prison on Christmas Eve, after serving half his sentence for three counts of battery and one count of common assault.

Mr and Mrs Conlon sat through evidence in court this week and held hands as CCTV footage was played.

Medical evidence revealed one neck wound was 6cm deep and could have killed her.