Police officer who faced sword attacker suffered ‘horrifically serious’ injuries
A female police officer suffered “horrifically serious” arm injuries in the east London sword attack that claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has said.
Sir Mark Rowley told LBC the officer had undergone several hours of surgery on Tuesday and faces “a long journey of recovery” after nearly losing her hand.
He said: “The surgeon spent many, many hours basically putting her arm back together.”
A male officer also suffered serious hand injuries and is recovering in hospital.
The boy who died is understood to have been a pupil at Bancroft’s, the same school attended by last summer as she tried to save her friend Barnaby Webber from a knife attacker.
