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| Woman in a veil knifed British MP in the gut |
| 2010-05-15 |
| Shocked witnesses told last night how MP Stephen Timms was stabbed in the gut by a young woman wearing an orange headscarf and veil. The 21-year-old Asian lunged at popular Mr Timms - a leading anti-knife crime campaigner - as he held a constituency surgery at about 3.15pm. The Labour MP screamed as she calmly pushed a kitchen knife twice into his abdomen before she was wrestled away and disarmed by brave aide Andrew Bazeley. Last night cops revealed Mr Timms, 54, was lucky to be alive as the blade missed his vital organs. The ex-finance minister was said to be "in good spirits" in hospital, and was to be kept in overnight for observation. Cops, who recovered a knife from the scene, held the woman at a police station as doctors assessed her mental condition. Married Mr Timms, who held East Ham, East London, in the election with the largest majority in Britain, was attacked at a local council centre in Beckton. A staff member said: "There were two women there with babies. One was with the MP. "Then they went and another woman who was standing there just sort of lunged at him. Everyone was screaming - it happened so quickly. He was bleeding. You could see it through his shirt. "He stood up and went into the toilet. Then staff took him into a back office to lay him down until paramedics came. One paramedic was talking to him but he did not reply." Schoolgirl Sagal Ahmed, who was in the centre's library at the time, said: "I heard screaming and went into the surgery room. There was a skinny woman wearing an orange headscarf and a veil. I was told someone grabbed her after she stabbed Mr Timms. She was led away by police in handcuffs. She didn't say anything." A police source said: "He could easily have been killed. The knife missed his vital organs. But an inch or two either way and it would have been curtains." The source added the woman was "quite lucid", did not seem disturbed and had no apparent history of mental problems. Cops are trying to discover why she wanted to see Mr Timms, known as a committed Christian, and whether she had a specific complaint. But local community worker Rahman Fazlur described Mr Timms as "an excellent MP" and said he had first-rate relations with the Asian community. The stabbing comes a decade after Lib Dem Nigel Jones was wounded and his aide Andrew Pennington killed in a sword attack during a constituency surgery in Cheltenham, Gloucs. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #20 Guns, anyone? Oops, forgot you all irresponsible and have no (gun)-culture. Might just go shoot yourselves instead on account of depression, then who's going to pay the jizat tax? |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2010-05-15 21:26 |
| #19 The name Choudry and its variants are very common in north east India and Pakistan, like Smith or Jones here. A caste-based name, its people were often affiliated with the military, IIUC. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-05-15 15:52 |
| #18 no, but I think it's a common name |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-15 15:42 |
| #17 Abu, knife crime is a rumbling issue in the UK - less so at present than it was a year or two ago. Seems to either be on the wane, or getting less attention. IIUC, it's mainly black (on black) youths responsible, and tends to be blown out of proportion by the media. It certainly doesn't have a religious theme. First time I've heard of anything like this. I suspect the perp is a bog standard nutter. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-05-15 15:39 |
| #16 I've been reading lately that knife crime is a growing problem in the UK. Just wondering if they have any stats on which particular ethnic group is responsible which percentage of the knife crimes? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2010-05-15 15:02 |
| #15 Hmm. Any idea if they're related? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-15 14:42 |
| #14 you're likely thinking of anjem choudary - another vocal POS, Islam4UK spokeshole and dole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-15 14:36 |
| #13 The name of the attacker looks familiar but Thugburg is kinda flakey to the point where I can't find the initial articles for other people with that surname (which had to do with a mosque in the Birmingham area). I still get the feeling I should recognize the name. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-15 14:18 |
| #12 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-05-15 13:25 |
| #11 God may be holding off on natural disasters in the West And that's his problem. Taquiya. Tip of the iceburg. Attacks are escalating exponentially and from all quarters. it cannot be possible that infidels will continue to be so pathelogically adverse to naming the cult that claims with joy and shrieks their attacks. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-05-15 13:15 |
| #10 Sadly, this muslim-denial-by-the-press will continue until there is another subway bombing or 9-11 incident. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-05-15 13:11 |
| #9 Ctrl-F m-u-s-l-i-m Phrase not found. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-05-15 12:29 |
| #8 Shahid Mursaleen, spokesman for the Newham-based moderate Muslim organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran UK, said: 'We are shocked and saddened to hear that Stephen Timms MP has been stabbed.'Mr Timms has always been close to his constituency and a friend of Muslims living in east London. He has been a good friend of Minhaj-ul-Quran. 'We wish him well and his recovery to be soon and hope that he can resume his position as MP of East Ham soon.' uh huh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-15 10:59 |
| #7 Scotland Yard said unemployed Roshonara Choudhary, 21, has now been charged. Bingo |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-15 10:52 |
| #6 Yeah, Mr Timms, you might want to rethink that Labour immigration policy. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2010-05-15 10:42 |
| #5 she calmly pushed a kitchen knife twice into his abdomen before she was wrestled away and disarmed by brave aide Andrew Bazeley. I hope the "brave aide Andrew" is a female, otherwise her family might have to kill her for wrestling with a male, and then what would the ummah have to celebrate? |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-05-15 10:31 |
| #4 And what's wrong with bring a little new culture into the West? |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-05-15 09:23 |
| #3 A "constituency surgery" indeed. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2010-05-15 09:22 |
| #2 Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser He must be gratified that at least she was wasn't wearing tweed. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-05-15 08:39 |
| #1 I heard about it yesterday and thourght it must be a muslim being Newham and was proved right from this article. Oh the religion of peace strikes again! Probably told she had to look for a job or her benefits would be cut! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-05-15 08:20 |