Moment crazed ‘warrior’ enters supermarket armed with five kitchen knives, improvised axe and makeshift shield

By
James White

Last updated at 6:33 PM on 11th January 2012

This is the astonishing moment a crazed attacker stormed into a supermarket armed with an arsenal of knives including a hockey stick with a blade on the end.

David Millington, 37, then launched an attack on a security guard at a Morrisons in Wolverhampton over a grudge he had held since he was seven years old.

He went to the supermarket wearing a tool belt that contained kitchen knives and a makeshift shield, the city’s crown court heard.

Millington chased Andrew Osbourne, who he knew from his childhood, through the store before being tackled to the ground by manager Michael Walsh.

Caught on CCTV: David Millington enters a branch of Morrisons in Wolverhampton armed with five knives, a hockey stick and a shield

Caught on CCTV: David Millington enters a branch of Morrisons in Wolverhampton armed with five knives, a hockey stick and a shield

Weaponry: Millington was tackled by brave staff while carrying this fearsome array of knives including one attached to a hockey stick

Weaponry: Millington was tackled by brave staff while carrying this fearsome array of knives including one attached to a hockey stick

The shocking CCTV images show Millington, who is dressed in dark clothes with a black beanie hat, wielding the knives as he walks into the store and then bursting through the self-service checkouts, just inches away from other customers.

Detained: Millington has been held under the Mental Health Act

Detained: Millington has been held under the Mental Health Act

After chasing Mr Osbourne towards the
pharmacy, the attacker collided with a female customer near a till
before he was stopped in his tracks by Mr Walsh.

The brave store manager suffered a
ten inch gash to his thigh and a cut to his hand and, along with a
member of the public, Rodney Bruce, who assisted in detaining
Millington, was awarded £250 from public funds for his bravery at the
original court hearing in November.

After looking at CCTV images of the drama, jurors took just ten minutes to find that Millington was responsible for injuring Mr Walsh and the attacker was convicted of affray and possession of offensive weapons. 

In November, Judge Dudley ruled that Millington was unfit to stand trial following reports from two psychiatrists and on Monday the court heard how a psychiatrist had concluded that the attacker was showing signs of schizophrenia.

Sentencing Millington to a hospital order under the mental health act on Monday, Judge Dudley said: ‘I’m satisfied on the evidence before me that you are suffering from a mental illness.

‘You should be treated in a hospital setting.’

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Nice to see people like this in the community…. You need eyes in the back of your head in this country or you are likely to be decapitated whilst shopping for groceries…. He wasn’t mad enough not to be able to make weapons and create a weapons belt!?! Strange that!

The the law disarms the general public in the UK -and this is the result you get when somebody like this goes on the rampage……. innocent people hurt.
If this had happened in the states he’d have been stopped in his tracks there and then.

Probably been playing too much Skyrim….

Perhaps he found a product cheaper elsewhere.

This country is gonna pop! When people lose everything, they lose it! This is the start, everyday people are losing it more and more.
Let them it cake…

Look mate, next time you buy a dodgy pork pie from Morrisons, just ask for a refund at the service desk.

Headline should read ‘Manager and member of public saves fleeing wimp security guard’.

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