Sainsbury’s stabbing spree victim relives horror attack in supermarket car park
The mum was left fighting for her life after the OAP attacker hacked at her and three other women with a knife
A CHARITY worker knifed 12 times by an OAP on a stabbing rampage outside a supermarket has spoken of her horror following the gruesome attack.
Mum-of-two Janet Morsy was left fighting for life after 67-year-old Ethem Orhon hacked at her outside the Sainsbury's in Hampton, south west London, during the bloodbath in May.
Orhon was convicted of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of grievous bodily harm by jurors at Kingston Crown Court and jailed for 20 years.
Speaking to the about her nightmare ordeal, victim Janet said: "It was the most terrible feeling seeing him come towards me and knowing I wasn’t going to make it to the safety of the car. I thought ‘this is the moment when I die’. All I could say was ‘please, don’t do it’.
"I saw him lunge towards me with the knife and he started chopping me up. I could feel the blade go between my ribs.
“I couldn’t fight back, he was too strong. I was screaming for help try and get him off me but no one would come near because they didn’t want to become a target themselves.”
Loner Orhon launched the random attacks near his home in Hampton, London on May 20.
He says he was triggered after police humiliated him by arresting him for carrying a knife just one day earlier.
Kingston Crown Court heard that he had been kept in a cell at Belgravia police station overnight on May 19 this year after being charged with carrying a bladed weapon in public.
He was released on bail the following morning.
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The jury was told that he went on to attack four women in a Sainsbury’s car park, before two heroic schoolboys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, distracted him until his arrest.
Janet, who volunteers at disability charity Richmond Aid, said: “Those boys are so brave. They were watching the whole thing unfold and started teasing him, it was a red rag to a bull.
"It might have been too late for me but they stopped other people being hurt or even killed - he was not going to stop. He was swinging the knife at them but they were too quick.”
Jonathan Polnay, prosecuting told the court that one victim, Suzanna Brand, was stabbed in the leg, back, side and arm, suffering "very serious injuries", including "two collapsed lungs and a laceration to her liver".
Despite her injuries Ms Brand walked around a corner screaming, "did he stab me, did he stab me", and was searching for her wounds.
Jean Sullivan, 68, and Charandasi Chandiramani, 71, were both stabbed in the back.
Mr Polnay told the jury that police found a newspaper clipping of a terrorist attack taped to a kitchen cupboard in Orhon’s home, as well as a multi-tool with a blood-stained blade and an underground guide with the words, “murder at green lights”.
The court also heard that police also found maps taped to the kitchen walls, a box for a Leatherman multitool, and brochures for knives.
Orhon, a Turkish national, arrived in the UK in 1989 and had lived a ten-minute walk from the attacks for almost 14 years.
Orhon had told an officer: "I was released at about 9am. I went home and got my other leatherman.
"I shouldn't have done it, I feel bad, it was a loss of control. I felt humiliated."
He later said in a police interview that he had felt "mentally tortured" by police.
Janet, who spent several weeks in hospital, said: "He has to be locked up and off the streets because he is dangerous but it’s sad to be locked up at that age because he hasn’t got much time left.
"But when I’m out I can still sometimes see him running towards me, it will always be with me. Incredibly no-one was killed but its cast a shadow over the whole town.”
Judge Paul Dodgson told Orhon: "This was a planned attempt to kill albeit while the balance of your mind was disturbed. You took that knife intending to use it, intending to kill people."
The two schoolboys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were each awarded £1,000 by the judge as a reward for their bravery.
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