Hero shoppers seize knife after stabbing
A GROUP of brave shoppers wrestled a large knife from an attacker in the latest shocking confrontation in Wild West Britain.
Several men were seen trying to pull the weapon off the alleged knifeman on a busy high street.
One shopper even kept hold of his bags while attempting to help, as dozens of others gathered on the pavement and traffic was forced to stop.
Eventually, one of the heroes seized the knife – which appeared to be about 8in long – as the blade’s protective cover flicked off.
The suspected attacker then continued wrestling with one of the men near Upton Park Underground station in east London.
The incident was captured on a car’s dashcam.
A separate mobile phone clip then showed the men holding the alleged assailant on the ground.
One of the group could be seen directing traffic along the road while clutching the knife with its cover re-attached as they waited for police to arrive.
Police confirmed that someone in their twenties had suffered a stab wound to the hand, and in the video a man could be seen holding a blood-splattered towel following the scuffle on Saturday at lunchtime. Officers took the weapon and arrested a 16-year-old on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
Last night, they said the teenage boy had been charged with a range of violent offences.
The suspect, who cannot be named because of his age, was also charged with possession of an offensive weapon and cannabis.
He will appear in custody at Stratford Youth Court today.
The confrontation occurred as police are run ragged by violence flaring up across the capital.
In a separate incident in the capital, senior officers condemned members of the public who cheered a suspected gunman as he fled police in Romford.
Despite being sprayed with CS gas, the man managed to run away and an onlooker was heard shouting ‘go on son’.
Police later revealed that a female officer suffered a broken bone in her right hand and a colleague requires surgery to ligament damage. The incidents come after four people were stabbed to death and a string of teenagers suffered serious wounds over three days in separate attacks.
In one incident a teenage boy, believed to be 15 or 16, was disembowelled during a street fight in Camberwell involving up to 30 youths wielding machetes. There were also murders in Battersea, Catford, Southwark and Chingford. There have been more than 90 murders in the capital this year. And police are also investigating a stabbing in Mayfair after a 27-yearold man turned up at a hospital with several wounds yesterday.
‘Teenage boy has been charged’