Mum ‘stabbed in face with kitchen knife’ as she pushed pram on quiet street told cops attacker ‘was all over me’
A MUM stabbed in the face as she walked with her baby in a pram told cops the knifeman “was all over me”, a court heard today.
Josephine Conlon was returning home from a bakery in Streatham, South London, when she was “shoved” from behind.
The new mum was then slashed in the face and neck seven times by Mark Brazant, it is claimed.
Brazant then fled the scene as the buggy containing Josephine’s 21-month-old baby daughter rolled into a parked car, it was said.
The Old Bailey heard how the 44-year-old had only been released from jail six days before the alleged attack for three offences of battery and one of common assault.
On December 30, the paranoid schizophernic “deliberately armed himself with a kitchen knife” and pounced on Josephine, jurors were told.
‘HE WAS KNEELING OVER ME’
Jurors heard how recalling the attack to police, she said: “He was all over me.
“He was kneeling over me, so he had the dominant position. I was on the floor being stabbed.”
The mum said she remembered screaming and repeatedly asking Brazant what he wanted as she attempted to get away.
Prosecutor Louise Oakley said: “They had never met each other before and were complete strangers.
“But, having followed her a short distance and having deliberately armed himself with a kitchen knife, he used it to inflict multiple stab wounds to her face and neck.”
The prosecutor said she knew “somebody wanted to do something bad” when she was pushed from behind as she chatted on the phone to her mum.
Josephine was discovered covered in blood by a passerby, who had ran out when he heard her screams, it was said.
She was rushed to hospital where she was treated for seven stab wounds including to her salivary gland.
‘I STABBED A PERSON’
Jurors heard Brazant walked into Wandsworth Police Station two days later carrying a knife saying he had “stabbed a person on the street two days earlier”.
The court was told Brazant had disappeared following his release from Thameside jail on Christmas Eve.
He had been live at a supported house for people with mental health problems but staff raised the alarm when he failed to show up.
The court was told his paranoid schizophrenia does not provide him with a defence to the “horrific crime”.
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Brazant accepts stabbing Josephine but denies he intended to kill her or cause really serious harm.
He is charged with one count of attempted murder.
The trial continues.