Most women will know how frightening it is to walk home alone at night.
Shadows in doorways. Keys bunched in your fist as a makeshift weapon. Running down the street, heart hammering. Is that someone following? Making it to your front door unharmed is sweet relief.
Not so for the 32-year-old woman who was walking home alone after a meal out in Leeds in March 2024.
Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind. Her attacker stabbed her 30 times with a broken glass bottle, slashing her in a way witnesses described as ‘frenzied’.
Her ‘blood-curdling screams’ were so loud they were heard by security men
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