Robber given life sentence after stabbing two police officers in central London
A robber has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after stabbing two officers in London’s West End following a police pursuit.
Mohamed Rahman, 25, knifed police constable Joseph Gerrard in the neck and chest – “targeting where the Met (stab) vest did not provide protection” – before stabbing Pc Alannah Mulhall in the arm early on September 16 last year while intoxicated.
One of the Metropolitan police officers who was attacked by Rahman said “things like this happen all the time”.
On Friday the Met released video footage of the attack, alongside an interview in which Pc Gerrard said: “We came across a male brandishing a knife towards our colleagues. Initially we put a Taser on him, I tried to hit him with a baton but he then stabbed me in the arm.
