UK News 31-12-1999 George Harrison`s Attacker Revealed who: George Harrison what: Recovering after near fatal attack in his home where: Harefield Hospital, Middlesex when: Yesterday snippet: "I can see the headlines already - George has had a hard day`s night," George Harrison reportedly told nurses at The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading yesterday as he recovered from a near-fatal stab wound after an attack in his mansion in Henley at around 3:30am on Thursday. "The former Beatle was stabbed twice in the chest, narrowly missing a main artery," says The Express. "His wife Olivia, who bravely intervened as her husband fought the intruder, emerged as his saviour. She ended the 10-minute fight, which spilled into several rooms, by smashing a heavy table lamp over the attacker`s head." Harrison`s attacker Mick Abram, 33 year-old loner and father of two from Huyton, Liverpool, "had developed a bizarre hatred of the Beatles and thought they were witches," reports The Sun. A former girlfriend told the paper: "Mick identified with Harrison`s belief in spiritual things. He thought John Lennon was a prophet and Paul McCartney was the Devil." [... more]

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