(posted 7527 days ago)PA News
Tue 16 Sep 2003
6:21pm (UK)Family Tell of Mum’s Stab Ordeal
By Nick Allen, Crime Correspondent, PA NewsThe family of a mother stabbed on a bus told today how she bravely fought off her attacker.
Milisa (correct) Duker-Brown, 22, who was with her five-month-old baby Sammy-Jane, was stabbed twice in the back of the neck, once in the chest and several times in her arms and hands.
She had surgery to her wounds following the stabbing in Kennington, south London yesterday.
Miss Duker-Brown was wheeling Sammy-Jane down the street when she had her handbag stolen.
She and a friend chased the mugger and got the bag back but he ran after them.
When they jumped on to a crowded bus he followed them on and attacked with a knife.
Miss Duker Brown’s mother Esther Ansah, 52, said: “The man is cruel and wicked to do this to her in front of a baby.
“At the moment I don’t know what to do I am so disturbed.
“When we got to Accident and Emergency the baby was there crying.
“Her mother was crying and I was also crying with my sister.
“The family is very traumatised and upset and obviously we are looking after Mili’s baby.
“We want to appeal for anyone with information or anyone who was on the bus to come forward and speak to the police so that this man can be apprehended and cannot commit a similar offence in the future.”
Miss Duker-Brown, from south London, had just collected her child benefit from the Post Office when the mugger grabbed her bag from behind at about 10.45am on Monday.
She remains in hospital in a stable condition.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested and is in custody at a central London police station.