Hammer attack leaves City firm ‘shocked’

A woman fighting for her life alongside her mother after an unprovoked hammer attack works for a financial services firm in London’s Canary Wharf.

Ania Gos, 30, was one of two women who were targeted apparently at random during the assault in Adderley Gardens, New Eltham, south-east London, residents said.

Employer S&P Global said yesterday that colleagues are “extremely shocked and saddened” by the “senseless” attack on Ms Gos and her mother.

Detectives arrested 27-year-old Joe Xuereb,

“We are extremely shocked and saddened”

believed to live nearby, after the women were critically injured on Sunday.

Officers were called at 12.10pm to find the pair suffering from devastating injuries “consistent with a violent assault”, Scotland Yard said.

In a statement yesterday, S&P Global said: “We are extremely shocked and saddened by the senseless attack on one of our employees, Ania Gos, and her mother on Sunday afternoon.

“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to their family and friends.”

Ms Gos’s 64-year-old mother was visiting from Poland when she was attacked, neighbours said.