A restaurant owner rushed to help the victim of a stabbing found lying in a pool of broken glass in Highgate last night.
A man was reportedly stabbed outside Superette on Swains Lane at around 8pm. Diners in the nearby London Shell Co eatery fled into shops while staff barricaded themselves in the toilet. Police are yet to make any arrests, and three men were seen speeding away from the scene. Harry Lobek, owner of London Shell Co, told the Camden New Journal: “I went to look and saw someone on the floor just bleeding out.
“The girlfriend was screaming. I got down and lifted up his t-shirt and had two puncture wounds in his back about two centimetres wide, side by side.
“I grabbed a towel and began to put pressure on the wound and asked the people to call the police and an ambulance. The victim on the floor kept asking me to move him because he was lying on a whole load of broken glass which was cutting his knees.”
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car, an incident response officer and a clinical team manager.
“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance. Our first paramedics arrived in five minutes. We treated a man at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.”
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