08 April 2011

Police hunt woman in burka over knife attacks

A WOMAN wearing a burka attacked two shoppers with a knife on separate occasions last week. The two men were attacked as they looked at a shop window in Walthamstow's St James's Street, near Ladbrokes.

A 55-year-old received a graze to the leg in the first incident, which happened at around 11.30am on Friday (April 1).

A 42-year-old was stabbed in the leg, but not seriously, when he was attacked on Saturday (April 2) at about 3.40pm.

.... The woman, described as Asian, wore a full length black burka with mesh covering her eyes and a cream cotton jacket during the first attack. She wore a full face covering head scarf, pink trousers and a beige jacket the second time. [Waltham Forest News] Read more [via The Iconoclast]