Daily Mail, Saturday, August 17, 2019 Page
QQQBloodsoaked
knife victim
begs for help
in Asda store
A TERRIFIED man covered
in blood staggered into an
Asda store pleading for help
after he was stabbed outside.
The victim, in his 20s, was
knifed in the face and back and
collapsed on the shopfloor after
the early morning attack.
Staff and shoppers rushed to
help in footage which emerged
on social media yesterday follow-
ing the attack outside the 24-
hour store in Dewsbury, West
Yorkshire. Police said a man in
his 20s was arrested on suspicion
of wounding after the horrific
incident on Thursday. He
remained in custody last night.
A worker helping the trauma-
tised victim is heard on the filmsaying to him: ‘Lay down buddy,
lay down. Stay on the floor.”
The attack happened around
4.30am. West Yorkshire Police
said they were called to the scene
at 4.47am and the victim was
taken to hospital with non-life
threatening injuries.
A police spokesman said: ‘A
male, in his 20s, was found with a
stab wound to his back and lac-
erations to his face. Inquiries are
continuing.’
An Asda spokesman said: ‘We
would like to thank our col-
leagues for their quick thinking
to call the authorities and cus-
tomers for their understanding.’Daily Mail ReporterStaggering: The heavily bleeding stabbing victim in the storeCollapse: The wounded man crawls along blood-covered floorCuffed: A male punter is led away by police Under arrest: A young woman is held by an officerFace of stab victim, 18
A TEENAGER was stabbed to death trying to pro-
tect a young woman, it was claimed yesterday.
Solomon Small, pictured, was knifed in the neck
and chest at 2pm on Thursday in Brixton, south
London. Witnesses said he was with a female
friend when a man known to him approached
them. The girl ‘got in between’ them after seeing
he had a knife but the 18-year-old apprentice
reportedly told her to run and was stabbed as he
fended off the attacker.the more vulnerable within our
communities, targeted and
exploited by those who seek to sell
drugs, who often instigate violent
acts and place young people at risk
of harm and criminalisation in the
process’. And he warned would-be
criminals: ‘There is no hiding place
for those who peddle drugs.’
He added: ‘We will continue to
target those involved in all aspects
of the drug trade, many of whom
are failing to recognise or care
about the damage their activities
are inflicting on society and our
most vulnerable communities.’RELATIVES of a lawyer stabbed
to death with a screwdriver last
night condemned his killers for
wrecking ‘so many lives’.
Peter Duncan, 52, died after
being attacked as he walked
home through a shopping cen-
tre on Wednesday.
Police sources said there
appeared to be no obvious
motive for his murder.
They stressed that claims Mr
Duncan had intervened in a
fight or to protect a womanwere wrong. Two youths aged
1 and a 15-year-old arrested
after the killing in Newcastle
remained in custody last night.
The victim’s nephew, David
Duncan, 22, said the family were
‘heartbroken’, adding: ‘It’s
insane how a split second can
change so many lives.’
Mr Duncan had just left work
when he was attacked around
6.20pm. CCTV cameras are
understood to have caught the
murder on film.Lawyer’s killers ‘have
wrecked so many lives’