Leigh-Anne Mahachi was stabbed during an incident in Spotswood Close, Gleadless Valley, at around 8.15am.
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She was pursued by a large man with an axe but he fled when a male officer arrived on the scene. See Ross Parry copy RPYPOLICE: A man has been arrested following a domestic incident.
Another three policemen were injured as they arrested the man later in a Co-op store on suspicion of attempted murder.
“There may be times when we criticise the police but, whenever we do so, we should never forget that every day officers are responding to calls never knowing what will confront them”.
He said the officer who was attacked was “lucky to be alive” and is appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the assault to get in touch.
-The man was hurling missiles at staff.
He was eventually held on suspicion of murder.
A female police officer has been seriously injured and four male officers have been injured in an axe attack.
Five police offices have been injured whilst responding to a domestic incident in South Yorkshire.
It is understood he managed to grab one of the cop’s batons and used it against them.
-In addition to a fractured skull and leg, she suffered severe injuries to her hands as she tried to defend herself from the man wielding the axe.
Mr Ellis said he had noticed two officers running up the stairwell in his block of flats and then a female resident emerged.
Ch Supt David Hartley said the officer, along with a colleague, faced “an immediate and aggressive attack”.
-Several accounts of how the arrest was made surfaced on social media.
Mr Ellis said the police officer had a badly smashed and disfigured ankle, she had a nasty head injury at the back of her head and one of her fingers was hanging on by a thread.
-He said the officer was on the ground with her baton up for protection “pleading with somebody to help her and stop him hurting her”. “So I dragged her by her body armour with blood pouring out everywhere”.
“I told her I can’t carry her and she said: “Drag me, drag me”.
He said: “I had to put this woman’s welfare first because she going to end up getting chopped to pieces if somebody doesn’t help”.
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“Police say I saved her life but I’m not having that”.
