Hunt for attacker after man stabbed 19 times with a screwdriver in east London

Detectives investigating a screwdriver onslaught successful which a antheral was stabbed 19 times successful eastbound London person released a photograph of the fishy arsenic portion of an ‘urgent’ entreaty to way him down.

Tom Savage, 36, suffered life-changing injuries successful the ‘horrific’ attack, which took spot successful Mirabelle Gardens, Stratford, soon aft 9pm connected August 19.

He spent weeks successful infirmary aft being repeatedly stabbed successful the head, abdomen and assemblage by a alien portion retired walking his dog.

The attacker was tracked arsenic acold arsenic Whitechapel, wherever helium was seen getting disconnected the Elizabeth line, but the way has gone cold.

The Met Police has present released a photograph of a antheral they privation to talk to successful transportation with the stabbing.  

Detective Sergeant Simon Wheeler said: ‘We proceed to analyse this horrific battle and are urgently appealing to the nationalist to help.

‘We are successful regular interaction with the unfortunate and are examining each avenue of accidental to find the idiosyncratic liable and bring him to justice.’

Speaking to the BBC past period astir the attack, Tom described being approached by the antheral who asked him if helium lived successful the country earlier lifting his ain garment up, exposing ‘what looked similar the grip extremity of a screwdriver’.

‘I was rather fortunate it wasn’t a weapon really, I’m beauteous definite that’s what it was but I ne'er saw the afloat thing,’ helium said.

‘I didn’t get precise acold earlier this feline knocked maine over. I felt a smack successful the backmost of my caput and from that constituent connected I don’t retrieve feeling immoderate symptom from the full happening – I felt numb.

‘I managed to outcry for assistance a mates of times, but past the adjacent happening I cognize helium threw maine connected the level – I mislaid each feeling from my thorax down and I deliberation that’s astir apt erstwhile helium stabbed maine successful the spine. That was the constituent wherever it was implicit for me.

‘I was laying connected my broadside and astatine that constituent I couldn’t truly move.’

Doctors person told him it whitethorn instrumentality up to 2 years to retrieve from his injuries.

Tom said the thought of his attacker inactive being retired determination near him acrophobic to permission home.

He said: ‘I’m rather anxious, it doesn’t consciousness similar we’re immoderate person to having justness oregon an answer.’

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