This happened in our local shopping centre last week, OH witnessed it - has already made me think about what a scary world this is to bring our baby into 
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WALTHAMSTOW: Witnesses recount mall knife horror
By Sarah Cosgrove
SHOPPERS and shop staff looked on in horror as a teenager slit his throat and collapsed in a pool of blood after stabbing a pensioner.
The 18-year-old, who has since been sectioned, stabbed the 69-year-old in the toilets of The Mall while the Walthamstow High Street centre was full of shoppers.
He stabbed the older man just before 3pm before running out and down the stairs, slashing his wrists and cutting his throat along the way.
Stunned shop workers saw him collapse at the bottom of the stairs.
They told of how he noticed security guards coming towards him and got up and stumbled towards the High Street entrance of the centre, collapsing again outside Rosebys in a pool of blood.
Amjad Ali, 21, a shop assistant at nearby Superdrug, said: "The guy came down the stairs. He was dripping with blood, he was screaming.
"We thought we were going to get stabbed. We thought there was a madman running around.
"There were kids running around and screaming when they saw the blood."
He described the youth brandishing a seven-inch hunter's knife while running past a group of 14-year-old schoolchildren on work experience.
A female colleague added: "They were clinging on to me and crying.
"They saw the blood and some of them were feeling faint."
The centre was evacuated and shops were closed until Saturday morning.
Several people working there said they were apprehensive about coming back to work.
Muhammed Sufyan, assistant manager of KFC, said he and his staff were scared when he saw the older man had knife wounds in his neck and his back.
Both men were airlifted to hospital and treated.
The older man has been released but the 18-year-old remains in hospital under the Mental Health Act.
....:WALTHAMSTOW: Witnesses recount mall knife horror
By Sarah Cosgrove
SHOPPERS and shop staff looked on in horror as a teenager slit his throat and collapsed in a pool of blood after stabbing a pensioner.
The 18-year-old, who has since been sectioned, stabbed the 69-year-old in the toilets of The Mall while the Walthamstow High Street centre was full of shoppers.
He stabbed the older man just before 3pm before running out and down the stairs, slashing his wrists and cutting his throat along the way.
Stunned shop workers saw him collapse at the bottom of the stairs.
They told of how he noticed security guards coming towards him and got up and stumbled towards the High Street entrance of the centre, collapsing again outside Rosebys in a pool of blood.
Amjad Ali, 21, a shop assistant at nearby Superdrug, said: "The guy came down the stairs. He was dripping with blood, he was screaming.
"We thought we were going to get stabbed. We thought there was a madman running around.
"There were kids running around and screaming when they saw the blood."
He described the youth brandishing a seven-inch hunter's knife while running past a group of 14-year-old schoolchildren on work experience.
A female colleague added: "They were clinging on to me and crying.
"They saw the blood and some of them were feeling faint."
The centre was evacuated and shops were closed until Saturday morning.
Several people working there said they were apprehensive about coming back to work.
Muhammed Sufyan, assistant manager of KFC, said he and his staff were scared when he saw the older man had knife wounds in his neck and his back.
Both men were airlifted to hospital and treated.
The older man has been released but the 18-year-old remains in hospital under the Mental Health Act.
thats terrible - scary
