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22-04-2005, 07:25 PM
Two arrested in knife attack case
Two were arrested, A man and a woman have been arrested by police after a mother was stabbed while walking with her young child. Abigail Witchalls aged 26 is critiacally ill in hospital at the moment because she was stabbed in the neck while walking her young toddler. On Friday, Surrey Police said the man aged 28, and woman aged 29, had attended a police station voluntarily. A blue Peugeot car was also seized by police. The man and woman were arrested after walking into Leatherhead police station and are being held elsewhere in the county.Mrs Witchalls is being treated at the St George's Hospital, in south London, where relatives are keeping a bedside vigil.
Det Supt Harper said she was so seriously injured that she was given the last rites after the attack.
She was attacked on a private lane off Burnhams Road, in Little Bookham.
Police said there was no sign of a struggle, and nothing had been removed from the rucksack she had been carrying! Mrs Witchalls' son Joseph was found out of his buggy and beside his mother on the ground after the stabbing.
He was shocked, but unhurt (thankfully) and is being cared for by family.
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Two were arrested, A man and a woman have been arrested by police after a mother was stabbed while walking with her young child. Abigail Witchalls aged 26 is critiacally ill in hospital at the moment because she was stabbed in the neck while walking her young toddler. On Friday, Surrey Police said the man aged 28, and woman aged 29, had attended a police station voluntarily. A blue Peugeot car was also seized by police. The man and woman were arrested after walking into Leatherhead police station and are being held elsewhere in the county.Mrs Witchalls is being treated at the St George's Hospital, in south London, where relatives are keeping a bedside vigil.
Det Supt Harper said she was so seriously injured that she was given the last rites after the attack.
She was attacked on a private lane off Burnhams Road, in Little Bookham.
Police said there was no sign of a struggle, and nothing had been removed from the rucksack she had been carrying! Mrs Witchalls' son Joseph was found out of his buggy and beside his mother on the ground after the stabbing.
He was shocked, but unhurt (thankfully) and is being cared for by family.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41066000/jpg/_41066253_abigailandjoseph203.jpg