Man suspected of beheading a London woman attacked two other people
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Version 0 of 1. The 25-year-old man arrested under the suspicion that he murdered a woman in broad daylight at a London garden also attacked two other people, police said. Police have released the name of the victim, 82-year-old Palmira Silva, who was found collapsed in a garden behind a home on Nightingale Road in Edmonton. According to reports, witnesses at the scene believe Silva was beheaded. Police have not confirmed the nature of her injuries and have not yet identified the suspect. Friday’s Daily Mirror front page – “Gran, 82, beheaded in her back garden” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/ZymgUgL7Ih — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014 Friday’s Daily Mirror front page – “Gran, 82, beheaded in her back garden” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/ZymgUgL7Ih — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014 The brazen, brutal crime was discovered early Thursday afternoon after witnesses called the police to report a man carrying a knife. “The male had been seen to be carrying a knife and to attack a car,” Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford said at a news conference Thursday. The other attack occurred at a different home in the North London neighborhood, where two people were able to escape without injuries, police said in a statement. Police have declined to disclose the weapon, but according to the Guardian, witnesses said they saw a man who was wearing all black carrying a “long-bladed weapon with a curved edge.” “I heard lots of screaming and shouting next door,” an unnamed neighbor said, according to the Mirror. “Then a guy with a knife was in our back garden. There was a lot of blood on the knife and he was just hacking away at stuff. It’s just unbelievable, I’m so shocked.” The suspect was hospitalized following his arrest. Police have insisted that they are not searching for any other suspects and do not believe the incident is terror-related. According to the Guardian: The investigation is being led by specialist murder detectives, not by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command. There was no suggestion from witnesses that the attacker said anything related to religion, as happened in the 2013 murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London. The investigation is being led by specialist murder detectives, not by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command. There was no suggestion from witnesses that the attacker said anything related to religion, as happened in the 2013 murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London. Friday’s Metro front page – “Beheaded on a London street” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/qfVObDpSWZ — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014 Friday’s Metro front page – “Beheaded on a London street” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/qfVObDpSWZ — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014 |