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January 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Rebecca Jackson said she thought she was stabbing her mother in the attack
- She was seen wandering through Leeds city centre with the knife dripping with blood
- Victim Tanya Mitcham left with scarring on her back, shoulder and arm
- Jackson detained under Mental Health Act
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Richard Hartley-parkinson
Last updated at 12:47 PM on 4th January 2012
A student nurse was left fighting for her life after being stabbed in a random attack as she boarded a bus after a night shift.
Tanya Mitcham, 20, was on her way to visit her supervisor when Rebecca Jackson, also 20, plunged a kitchen knife into her victim’s back at Leeds Central Coach Station.
Jackson then walked through the city centre still clutching the 8in knife which was dripping with Miss Mitcham’s blood.
Leeds Central Coach Station where Rebecca Jackson stabbed Tanya Mitcham three times in an unprovoked attack
Speaking at Leeds Crown Court about the attack, Miss Mitcham said that at first she did not realise what had happened.
She had to be treated at Leeds General Infirmary after being stabbed once in her left arm, severing an artery and a vein, and twice in her back, narrowly avoiding her spine.
Miss Mitcham broke down while giving evidence and Judge Peter Collier adjourned the hearing for several minutes so that she could compose herself.
‘I felt like someone was punching me. I was in that much shock over what was going on really.
‘I touched my arm and I felt the blood. I started to scream.
‘Everyone seemed to be staring at me when I was shouting to phone an ambulance. I didn’t feel like anyone was going to help me. I started stumbling backwards.’
Before the attack on April 18 2011, Jackson had been to Leeds General Infirmary at 9am to be treated for cuts to her head. She told a nurse that she wanted to kill her mother.
Staff nurse Angie Stafford told the court: ‘She said, “It’s not me, I need to harm my mum”. Then I asked her about it some more and she said “I need to kill my mum”.’
But before a mental health team could see to her, Jackson left the hospital heading to a shop where she stole the knife.
Jackson had been to Leeds General Infirmary (pictured) just before the attack where she told staff she wanted to kill her mother
She then sent a text message to a friend which said ‘Nicked a knife to kill the diff [sic]’.
She was then seen at the bus station, acting strangely and aggressively before approaching Miss Mitcham and stabbing her from behind three times.
Student support worker, Holly Pettit, witnessed the attack and gave first aid by applying pressure until paramedics arrive.
She said: I heard a woman scream and I saw her take out a knife. Blood just spilled out onto the floor.
‘I turned her round and there was a big gaping hole with lots of blood seeping out.’
Miss Mitcham had to be resuscitated at Leeds General Infirmary and underwent surgery but has been left with scarring across her left shoulder, left arm and her back.
Jackson then walked through Leeds city centre with blood on her hands. Karen Downend saw her drop the knife’s packaging and went to give it back to her when she noticed the blade.
She said: ‘I thought “she has a crazed look on her face”. She was waving it about. There was blood dripping as she was walking and I thought she had cut herself.’
When Jackson was arrested she told police ‘I thought I saw my mother so I stabbed her’.
Jackson was charged with attempted murder but found to be not mentally fit to plead and flanked by four carers in the dock .
After a one day trial, a jury took 30 minutes to return a verdict that Jackson had carried out the act and she was detained at a mental health hospital.
It is expected she will be made the subject of a hospital order later today after the court has heard evidence from a psychiatrist.
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Glad the girl she attacked is ok that the attacker is getting the help she needs – however if I was her Mum I’d always be looking over my shoulder..
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When are you Brits going to ban these dangerous and senseless knives like you did guns? That would solve everything, right?
– Completely Average, Somewhere, 04/1/2012 14:29
Ban knives??? What would we use to cut out veg up? Besides, she was mental so if there was no knives she would have just used something else like a bat or a brick
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And they wonder why we dont do the citizens arrests no more,Welcome to your violent BRITON MR CAMERON………..
– pam, still in the uk, 04/1/2012 13:52
Well, Pam, I think you have hit the nail on the head there, it’s people like yourself who do not have a basic grasp of the English Language that are the root of the problem. And its BRITAIN, not BRITON.
And if you think back, this country’s decline has nothing at all to do with Mr Cameron or the present government, its all down to the previous 13 years of Labour!
I am close to 57 and cannot recall a Christmas period when so many people have been killed, sad really that Britain is slowly going down the pan.
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The attack was in April 2011 and she is only expected to be subjected to a hospital order later today, where has she been since then?!
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about time the law changed to something more serious, if your carrying a knife of any type 10 years, you use the knife, life without question!
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To the dimwit who said ban knives?? How the hell can knives be banned when we use them as an everyday kitchen utensil? Anybody can just walk into a supermarket and easily steal a Kitchen knife, which seems to be the case here!
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When can we have our lock-down mental institutions back, please?
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what ever happened to the carrying of a knife was 5 years inside, more spin from cameron and co……………………
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When are you Brits going to ban these dangerous and senseless knives like you did guns? That would solve everything, right?
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It’s about time that the carrying of knives is considered a crime
– Shirley, Altamonte Springs Fl., 04/1/2012 12:44
It is. This is the relevant section of the act
””It is an offence for any person, without lawful authority or good reason, to have with him in a public place, any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed except for a folding pocket-knife which has a cutting edge to its blade not exceeding 3 inches.” [CJA 1988 section 139(1)]”
You seem, however, to have completely missed the point. The assailant is mentally ill. No amount of legislation on the carrying of knives would have made a blind bit of difference in this case.
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