On my way home from a friends house, I had been visiting a man about radio, and just as I got in my car to drive away, I saw a commotion.
I saw a knife thrust into a person twice.
The gang ran off and I saw a young woman slump to the pavement. I called on my mobile phone 999, "I've just seen a woman knifed".
On getting out of my car, locking it up, the gang were still around, I went over to the young asian woman and saw she had been stabbed in the chest. I rang again "Why is there not an ambulance or police.... **** lane" "No **** road".
She was having difficulty getting her breath so I tried the only first aid I knew - artificial respiration, mouth to mouth, as I had been trained in first aide.
The gang came back but ran off as the police and an ambulance arrived.
The girl was taken away by the paramedics and the police took me to identify the attacker, in their police car, the gang were just up the road.
The attacker, a big white man was soon picked out and taken by the police.
I then went on my way home.
He went to prison.
Chris.
24/12/2011