SPRAYED WITH BLOOD
London Bridge attack witness reveals how woman staggered in and grabbed him with blood spurting from her neck
A HORRIFIED reveller has revealed the terrifying moment a London terror attack victim staggered into a restaurant and grabbed him as blood gushed from her neck.
Jeff Witsey, 54, had been drinking in The Mudlark Pub when the victim reeled towards him after being slashed in the street in the terror attack that saw revellers mown down on London Bridge and stabbed in Borough Market.
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He said: "It was like a horror show. Her wound was gaping open, inches wide with blood spurting out.
"Her friends were screaming at us to take our shirts off. They were all taking their clothes off to use them to try to stop the bleeding.
"Then she collapsed. There were pools of blood. It was unbelievable. Her blood is still on my shirt."
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Terrified witnesses have told how the jihadists armed with hunting knives began hacking at people in the busy streets.
They rampaged in Borough Market after mowing down pedestrians on the bridge before the three terrorists were shot dead by police.
Seven people were killed and 48 injured in the terror attack in London Bridge on Saturday night.
Jag Sandue was at the Black and Blue restaurant in Borough Market when he saw several men storm in armed with knives.
He said a man was cut down behind him, with blood spraying onto his shirt.
He told The Sun: "There were people throwing chairs and glasses outside and I thought it might just be a fight. Then I realised it was more than that, people were running.
"Next thing we know, they're in our restaurant. People were screaming, 'They've got knives'."
He said a man behind him was cut by one of the suspects in the chaos, with people running to the back of the restaurant.
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Diners Jamie and Emma spoke of having to hide in the steak restaurant's kitchen when three men stabbed people in the face and stomach.
Jamie said: "We heard lots and lots of bangs, and we hid under the table. People came into the restaurant and knocked a bunch of stuff over, like the till."
An emotional Emma then interrupted: "They stabbed someone in the face and someone in the stomach."
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Jamie said: "And then we ran into the kitchen with a bunch of other people. A guy had been stabbed, he was cut and bleeding quite a lot.
"We were stuck in the kitchen for quite a while."
Emma added: "There were like three guys and one of them had a bread knife.
"They came in and walked around the restaurant, I guess they just stabbed anybody that they saw and knocked things on the ground. We just hid."
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:
- ISIS has claimed responsibility after a van ploughed through pedestrians on London Bridge just after 10pm on Saturday
- Three jihadists wearing fake bomb vests began knifing bystanders and pub-goers
- Staff at one pub barricaded the doors as the attackers tried to storm the building before the three terrorists were shot dead
- Member of the public caught in the crossfire as cops fired is being treated in hospital
- At least seven victims were killed, including a French man, and 48 people were injured with 21 critical
- At least two police officers are among the injured
- The first victim was named as Canadian national Christine Archibald, a charity worker from British Columbia
- Theresa May chaired a Cobra meeting before declaring 'enough is enough'
- Jeremy Corbyn said he is 'shocked and horrified' by 'brutal' attack
- Home Secretary Amber Rudd said police believe they have 'all the main perpetrators' and are confident they were radical Islamic terrorists
- Cops raid block of flats in Barking, East London, reportedly home to one of the attackers, and arrest 12 as well as sealing off East Ham flat
- Police and piece together the chaos
- The Met opened a casualty bureau for those concerned about family and friends. There are two numbers to call: 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197
- All the main political parties aside from UKIP suspended campaigning as Mrs May confirmed the election will go ahead
- One Love Manchester Concert goes ahead as youngsters refuse to let terrorists stop them attending
- Sick ISIS thugs celebrated attack and called for more atrocities
- London Bridge Underground and National Rail stations re-opened on Monday
- A minute’s silence nationwide on Monday at 11am and a vigil in Potters Fields Park in London at 6pm
- Gunfire heard in Dagenham as heavily-armed cops detain several people during raids linked to the attack
Did you see the London Bridge terror attack, or know anyone involved? Please contact The Sun newsdesk on 020 7782 4100, text 07423720250 or email [email protected]
Paul Clarke filmed the stabbing in a restaurant, with police since confiscating his phone for evidence.
He described hearing gunfire unleashed in the restaurant, with a man appearing to be a chef injured.
He said: "I saw three people coming in. I don't know what he had in his hand, it looked like a big long weapon.
"There was a man, one of the kitchen staff, on the floor, and the man was doing a stabbing motion.
"I just thought, we've got to get out of here."
He said he and his friends then ran from the scene.
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Wendy Clarke was also at the Black and Blue steak restaurant and said: "I saw a bottle flying.
"I said 'oh my god, what's going on there?'
"And they (friends) got up and the next thing was just pandemonium.
"Everyone was running into the restaurant and the next thing they were shouting was 'move, move, get out the way'.
"We got under tables."
She said her son shouted for her help, with the teen claiming he saw one of the men wearing a suicide vest.
Wendy said: "As we were running out the restaurant, we saw blood. Blood was everywhere."
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Sun reporter Ben Leo arrived at the scene minutes after and spotted at least six people motionless on the pavement.
He said: “One woman was frantically being attended to but she was lying in a massive pool of blood, absolutely still. It looked like her throat had been cut.
“I turned to my left and saw two more men with mangled legs — again lying motionless on the pavement. Just at the bottom of London Bridge was the van, which looked like it crashed into a lamppost.
“It was white with the orange B&Q sign on the back doors, which were flung wide open. Nobody knew what was going on — people were screaming and walking around completely stunned.
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“Armed police arrived and sprinted down a set of stairs into Borough Market.
“Shortly after gunshots rang out. It sparked mass panic and a huge group of people began sprinting back down the street. We were running for our lives. I felt sick.”
Another woman said the driver deliberately targeted pedestrians.
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The witness, who gave her name as Holly Jones, said: “I saw a male driver driving over the bridge towards the Shard veer onto the pavement at about 50mph.
“He swerved right round me and then hit five or six people. He hit about two people in front of me and then three behind and then swerved back into the road.
“He did this three times before he drove off. It was a blur. I’m in total shock.
“When the van hit the pavement, it could have made an effort to get back onto the road which it did, then it went straight back into the pedestrians again, if you imagine an S shape, it did that about three times up and down London Bridge, veering on and off the pavement.
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“When it got to the end of the bridge it carried on down the pavement and then went back onto the road. There’s at least five casualties.
“A lady behind me, who was a French lady, 45 years old, she got hit, she was probably three metres behind me, I went over to her. Her name was Christina, she kept telling me that she had a boyfriend with her.
"I got some of the people who were next to me who hadn’t been hit, we all looked over the side, we couldn’t see her boyfriend.
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“The other people that I saw on the bridge were actually unconscious. There was about five of us who hadn’t been hit. So we all ran to a casualty each.
"I saw it swerve around by myself, and the pedestrian in front of me, we both jumped out of the way. I just feel so lucky right now. Incredibly lucky.”
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A Sunday Times journalist told how he cheated death by leaping out of the way of the van as it ploughed into pedestrians on London Bridge.
Ian Houghton, 55, had left work and was walking over the bridge when the van came towards him.
He said: “I could see a van coming at speed over the bridge. People were screaming and leaping out of the way. There was debris flying everywhere, bits of the car and people’s possessions. He was coming right at me, so I jumped into the middle of the road.”
Houghton said the driver then swerved at him again. “I stepped back onto the pavement, and just as I did, the side of the van brushed my left hand.
"I could see at least five people lying either in the road or on the pavement. Some were sitting up, but at least two appeared to be fairly motionless in the road with people around them. Lots of people started shouting, ‘Get off the bridge, get off the bridge!’
“My instant thought was that it was another terrorist attack like the Westminster attack. I feel very lucky to have escaped with no injury.”
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Will Orton, 25, said: “We were in the Sheaf pub. Basically lots of people came running inside. The bouncers did a really good job, they shut the doors and locked everyone in. There was panic — it seemed like it was literally outside the door.
“People were coming inside and saying they had witnessed people being stabbed.”
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Police outside the Barrowboy and Banker pub, near where the van crashed
Another man told LBC Radio: “I was in the bar downstairs where it all happened.
“Suddenly during the gathering a massive bang, like an explosion kind of bang, it was a big shock. I turned around.
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“There was a van of some sort hitting the rail of the road. Ten seconds later I turned around on the right and there was a guy with a big knife. I mean a big knife. I don’t know. I knew by that point.
“I definitely saw one guy, a black short beard which went all the way up to his moustache. I’m pretty sure I saw more people behind him with more knives.
“I just ran for my life. I jumped a little fence which connects a little road to a footpath and I turned around to the left and there was a dead guy laying on the floor. I ran for my life.”
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