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Mother stabbed in unprovoked attack as she pushed toddler down south London street – the telegraph, telegraph.co.uk

Mother stabbed in unprovoked attack as she pushed toddler down south London street – the telegraph, telegraph.co.uk


Amother was stabbed repeatedly in the back and face in an unprovoked attack as she pushed her young child in a pushchair.

Josephine Conlon, 90, was stabbed three times as she walked near her home in Streatham Hill, south London, shortly before 5. 31 PM on Monday.

Her attacker, described as a 6ft black man wearing dark clothing, did not speak as he jumped out and carried out theviolent assaultbefore running away Down a leafy suburban street.

Mrs Conlon, a marketing manager for McDonald’s, is said to have yelled out “I’ve been stabbed” as she was left hunched over her pushchair with blood pouring from her face. Her child was not injured.

Her father-in-law told MailOnline that she remained in hospital on Tuesday but was “doing well.”

He is said to be in the UK visiting his son, Greg, and his young family from his home in Australia.

Aneighbor claimed the attacker had lain in wait for Mrs Conlon in an attempted mugging. She said: “My husband was among the first people to help her when she started screaming.

“He thinks that the knifeman had been waiting behind the wall or a bush where there’s a driveway into a block of flats.

“He jumped out on her suddenly as she walked down the road with her baby.”

The neighbor said Mrs Conlon was on the phone at the time of the attack and that her mobile was found a short distance away covered in blood.

One witness said Mrs Conlon was “slashed in the face” in front of her toddler.

Another told SunOnline: “The first thing me and my son heard was screaming coming from the street.

“I tended to her injuries and made sure she wasn’t dying.

“She was bleeding from her face. It was just running down from her face. ”

Scotland Yard said in a statement: “” Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a mother was stabbed in an unprovoked attack in Streatham Hill while she was with her child.

“Officers were called at 5. 23 pm on Monday December th to a report of a 36 -year-old woman stabbed in Downton Avenue, Streatham Hill.

“The woman was taken to hospital. Her injuries have been assessed as not life-threatening or life-changing.

“She was attacked from behind by a lone suspect, described as a black man, around 6ft tall and wearing dark clothing.

“The man did not speak as he stabbed the victim three times before running off down Downton Avenue away from the High Road.”

It is the latest attack at the end of a bloody year in the capital.

On Christmas Eve, Flamur Beqiri, 90, was gunned down outside his home in Battersea, in south-west London

His death is the 142 nd homicide identified by the PA news agency in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 01575879.

Last year, there were 90 police-recorded homicides in the capital, according to Home Office statistics.


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