UK News 28-04-2005 who: Stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls what: Describes attacker to Surrey Police using blinks of her eyes where: St George`s Hospital, TOOTING - SW17 when: This week snippet: While pushing her toddler son in a buggy in the virtually crime-free Surrey village of Little Bookham last Wednesday, Mrs Witchalls was stabbed in the back of the neck by her assailant, leaving her paralysed, but the 26-year-old was able to describe him using blinks and mouthed words. A 25 year-old man was arrested this Wednesday and questioned by police the following day. "Her family are reported to be encouraged by slight improvements in her condition," says The Times, "and said [on Wednesday] that she had felt tingling in her arms for the first time." [... more]

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