Stab victim wakes up asking ‘where am I?’ as medics battle to stem blood gushing from wound in footage highlighting the horrifying consequences of Britain’s knife epidemic
- Victim arrived at Aintree Hospital’s major trauma centre after being stabbed
- 15-strong team of medics battled to save his life after he was knifed in the chest
- He woke up dazed and confused surrounded by doctors and asked where he was
- The documentary Hospital airs on BBC Two on Mondays at 11.15pm
The stark reality of Britain’s knife crime epidemic has been laid bare in a BBC documentary which featured harrowing footage of a man who had been stabbed.
The young man woke up dazed and confused as a 15-strong team of medics battled to save his life at Aintree Hospital’s major trauma centre in Merseyside.
Viewers watched in horror as he was then rushed to the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital for emergency open heart surgery after the blade pierced heart, preventing it from beating properly.
The young man was taken to hospital after being stabbed in the chest
The young man woke up dazed and confused as a 15-strong team of medics battled to save his life at Aintree Hospital’s major trauma centre in Merseyside
Figures for knife crime nationally have hit a record high and Merseyside has seen incidents double in the last five years.
BBC Two’s Hospital showed distressing footage of the young man who arrived by emergency helicopter after being stabbed – one of three stabbings to arrive during the day.
The show showed him being sedated before the team scanned him to find the full extent of the internal damage and gave him a transfusion of eight units of blood.
The blade had reached the patient’s heart and caused bleeding into its protective sac, preventing his heart from beating properly.
The show showed him being sedated before the team scanned him to find the full extent of the internal damage and gave him a transfusion of eight units of blood.
A graph showing the rising trend in knife crime from March 2011 to September 2019, separated by type. It has been split into threats to kill, assault with an injury and assault with intent to cause harm, robbery and other offences. The total number of knife offences in the last year is 44,771
An ONS report published earlier this year separated the types of crime. This graphic shows clear increases in knife crime and fraud
With his life hanging in the balance, he was blue-lit 15 minutes across the city to the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital for emergency open heart surgery.
There, a cardiac surgeon released the pressure around his heart, saving his life.
Cardiac surgeon Julius Asante-Siaw told the show: ‘He’s about half-a-centimetre away of being dead at the scene.’
Knife crime in England and Wales hit a record high in the year to September, up by 7 per cent on the previous 12 months.
Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose to 44,771, according to figures released in January by the Office for National Statistics.
This is the highest on record, up from 41,858 in the previous 12 months and 46% more than when comparable records began in the year ending March 2011, at 30,620.
- Charlotte Huggins, 32, Jan-01, Camberwell
- Tudor Simionov, 33, Jan-01, Mayfair
- Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, Jan-04, Rainham
- Sarah Ashraf, 35, Jan-06, Isle of Dogs
- Jayden Moody, 14, Jan-07, Waltham Forest
- Asma Begum, 31, Jan-11, Canning Town
- Kamil Malysz, 34, Jan-27, Acton
- Nedim Bilgin, 17, Jan-29, Islington
- Carl Thorpe, 46, Feb-04, Highgate
- Lejean Richards, 19, Feb-05, Battersea
- Dennis Anderson, 39, Feb-10, East Dulwich
- Bright Akinlele, 22, Feb-18, Camden
- Brian Wieland, 69, Feb-19, Chingford
- Glendon Spence, 23, Feb-21, Brixton
- Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, Feb-22, Wood Green
- David Lopez-Fernandez, 38, Feb-25, Tower Hamlets
- Che Morrison, 20, Feb-26, Ilford
- Jodie Chesney, 17, Mar-01, Harold Hill
- Elize Linda Stevens, 50, Mar-02, Hendon
- Jolia Bogdan, 3 months, Mar-02, Croydon
- Mohamed Elmi, 37, Mar-03, Soho
- Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, Mar-06, Kew
- David Martinez, 26, Mar-06, Leyton
- Antoinette Donnegan, 52, Mar-07, Battersea
- Ayub Hassan, 17, Mar-07, West Kensington
- Florin Pitic, 20, Mar-10, Brent
- Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, Mar-16, Fulham
- Abdirashid Mohamoud, 17, Mar-22, Isleworth
- Ravi Katharkamar, 54, Mar-24, Pinner
- Ramane Richard Wiggan, 25, Mar-27, West Norwood
- Zahir Visiter, 25, Mar-28, Regents Park
- Gavin Garraway, 40, Mar-29, Clapham
- Calvin Bungisa, 22, Apr-01, Kentish Town
- Hubert Hall, 60, Apr-02, Walthamstow
- Annabelle Lancaster, 22, Apr-07, Enfield
- Noore Bashir Salad, 22, Apr-08, Manor Park
- Gopinath Kasivisuwanathan, 27, Apr-16, Wembley
- Steven Brown, 47, Apr-17, Stoke Newington
- Meshach Williams, 21, Apr-23, Harlesden
- Mihrican Mustafa, 38, Apr-26, Canning Town
- Henriett Szucs, 34, Apr-26, Canning Town
- Amy Parsons, 35, Apr-26, Whitechapel
- Joshua White, 29, Apr-26, Hackney
- Tashaun Aird, 15, May-01, Hackney
- Constantin Sin, 51, May-05, Leytonstone
- McCaulay Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, May-05, Southwark
- Barrington Davis, 54, May-16, Lewisham
- Vladimir Koudriavtsev, 69, May-23, Kensington
- Tatiana Koudriavtsev, 68, May-23, Kensington
- Iderval da Silva, 46, May-25, Battersea
- Alimal Islam, 23, May-26, Tower Hamlets
- Ismaila Ceesay, 33, May-28, Forest Gate
- Steven Kennedy, 61, May-30, Plaistow
- Graham Howe, 53, May-30, Harrow
- Baris Kucuk, 33, Jun-01, Haringey
- Adrian Murphy, 43, Jun-04, Battersea
- Cheyon Evans, 18, Jun-14, Wandsworth
- Eniola Aluko, 19, Jun-14, Plumstead
- Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky, 34, Jun-15, Tower Hamlets
- Giedrius Juskauskas, 42, Jun-16, Stratford
- Stepan Suslyk, 40, Jun-16, Notting Hill
- David Bello-Monerville, 38, Jun-18, Barnet
- Ionut Manea, 63, Jun-18, Ilford
- Edward Simpson, 25, Jun-21, Feltham
- Yusuf Mohamed, 18, Jun-26, Shepherds Bush
- Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, Jun-29, Croydon
- Riley Fauvrelle, 5 days, Jun-29, Croydon
- Ian Taylor, 54, Jun-29, Lambeth
- Fuad Habib, 28, Jun-29, Newham
- Gary Blagrove, 44, Jun-29, Fulham
- Amara Toure, 18, Jun-30, Southwark
- Tesfa Campbell, 40, Jul-03, Wandsworth
- Craig Walters (Craig Small), 32, Jul-05, Wembley
- Amanda Gretton, 57, Jul-05, Blackheath
- Grineo Daka, 27, Jul-07, Leyton
- Kwasi Mensah-Ababio, 26, Jul-08, Wembley
- Leo Marcus, 22, Jul-10, Kidbrooke
- Boluwatife Oyewunmi, 22, Jul-11, Enfield
- Kye Manning, 19, Jul-11, Croydon
- Akbar Arezo, 64, Jul-12, Whitton
- Layla Arezo, 74, Jul-12, Whitton
- Aron Kato, 28, Jul-17, Ilford
- Diane Dyer, 61, Jul-18, Beckenham
- Abdullahi Hassan, 20, Jul-25, South Hampstead
- Robert Komuro, 41, Jul-23, Hillingdon
- Liam Dent, 25, Jul-26, Chessington
- Alciveadis Mauredis, 60, Jul-31, Islington
- Dorothy Woolmer, 89, Aug-03, Tottenham
- Mohammed Shah Subhani, 27, Aug-05, Hounslow
- Alex Smith, 16, Aug-12, Camden
- Solomon Small, 18, Aug-15, Lambeth
- Amrou Greenidge, 18, Aug-20, Fulham
- Allan Isichei, 69, Aug-24, Southall
- Santino Angelo Dymiter, 18, Aug-26, Newham
- Lee Casey, 39, Aug-29, Brixton
- Unnamed child, 15 months, Aug-27, Putney
- Laura Rakstelyte, 31, Aug-29, Ilford
- Perry Jordan-Brammer, 15, Aug-30, Tottenham
- Sandra Samuels, 45, Aug-31, Hackney
- Norman Bertran-Tavarez, 24, Sep-01, Southwark
- Michael Irving, 15, Sep-03, Stratford
- Unnamed man, 20s, Sep-08, Lewisham
- Sahkira Mercedes Gwendolin Loseke, 20s, Sep-08, Chalk Farm
- Wilson Alexandre Garcia Varela, 24, Sep-09, Kentish Town
- Josiph Beker (Youssef al-Bayjani), 17, Sep-10, Edgware Road
- Unnamed girl, 8 weeks, Sep-12, SE16
- Assad Abdullah Yarow, 25, Sep-12, Camden
- Omar Smith, 34, Sep-13, Lewisham
- Unnamed girl, 16 months, Sep-13, Plaistow
- Julio Gomes, 29, Sep-14, Edmonton
- Mark McCann-Barrett, 33, Sep-17, Walthamstow
- Serafima Meshaka, 58, Sep-18, Ealing
- Sufi Osman, 22, Sep-23, Southall
- Tashan Daniel, 20, Sep-24, Hillingdon
- Osvaldo Carvalho, 22, Sep-24, Ealing
- Arlene Williams, 46, Sep-28, Enfield
- Baptista Adjie, 15, Oct-10, Stratford
- Clinton Evbota, 18, Oct-10, Camberwell
- Ben Lines, 20, Oct-13, Bexley
- Zoe Orton, 46, Oct-21, Deptford
- Beatrice Yankson, 59, Oct-26, Islington
- James Amadu, 26, Oct-31, Enfield
- Vladislavs Radionovs, 57, Nov-02, Ilford
- Hakim Ishmael Daba Sillah, 18, Nov-07, Uxbridge
- Mohammed Mirza, 19, Nov-19, Ilford
- Iron Miah, 40, Nov-19, Whitechapel
- Randy Skuse, 27, Nov-23, Whitechapel
- Akeem Dylon Barnes, 24, Nov-24, Ilford
- Mehran Heydari, 26, Nov-24, Ealing
- Justin Bello, 38, Nov-25, Neasden
- Jack Merritt, 25, Nov-29, London Bridge
- Saskia Jones, 23, Nov-29, London Bridge
- Exauce Ngimbi, 22, Dec-05, Hackney
- Mohammed Abdullah Al Araimi, 20, Dec-06, Knightsbridge
- Crossland Davis, 20, Dec-06, Greenwich
- James O’Keefe, 47, Dec-09, Hornsey
- Dmytro Balaban, 28, Dec-14, Brent
- Viorel Stefan, 49, Dec-14, Dagenham
- Albert Amofa, 33, Dec-15, Croydon
- Lee Styles, 39, Dec-18, Surbiton
- Ebrima Cham, 35, Dec-19, Hounslow
- Michael Paul Baptista, 24, Dec-19, Walthamstow
- Arber Fesko, 30, Dec-19, Barnet
- Unnamed boy, 16, Dec-19, Dagenham
- Lashawn Williams, 29, Dec-21, Newham
- John Kennett, 60, Dec-23, Thornton Heath
- Flamur Beqiri, 36, Dec-24, Wandsworth
The 2019 London murder rate of 137 broke last year’s total of 133 by early December – and is the highest level recorded since 2008 when Scotland Yard investigated 154 deaths
But the total number of homicides recorded by police fell by 6 per cent, from 654 to 617. There was also a 20 per cent drop in homicides where a knife or sharp instrument was used, to 221 offences, mainly driven by a decrease in London.
The figures prompted Barnardo’s chief executive Javed Khan to reiterate calls for the Government to take ‘urgent action’ to ‘break the spiral of violence’.
And they come after a wave of bloodshed on the street of the capital last year, which saw 147 murders, in a total compiled by MailOnline.
Figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, also released alongside the police recorded statistics, showed continued rises in overall fraud, with a 9 per cent increase – to 3.8 million offences – in the year ending September 2019, driven by a rise in ‘bank and credit account fraud’.
- Hospital, on BBC Two on Mondays at 11.15pm, is a co-production with the Open University.