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Detective Senior
Sergeant Grant Wormald said yesterday police had
identified "a number of suspects" after a 47-year-old woman was
stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen and hands by a man in the Styx Mill Reserve
on Thursday afternoon. The attack came just a
day after a woman was assaulted as she walked through Sydenham's The man suspected of
Thursday's attack - a white male in his late teens or early 20s - had been
spotted in the area three hours beforehand, but had not been seen since. He was described as
being about 175cm tall and wearing a baggy, dirty looking grey-hooded
sweatshirt. Wormald said items related to the
inquiry had been recovered but he wouldn't confirm whether a weapon had been
among them. "The victim didn't
see a large knife but she has slash wounds - they could have been done with a
small knife or razor." She was released from
hospital on Friday and was "coping extremely well but needed time to get
over her injuries", Wormald said. Up to 50 police have
been involved in the manhunt, and door- to-door canvassing of residents near
the Styx Mill Reserve finished yesterday morning. "We've also had a
constant stream of information about people in the neighbourhood and even
relatives, and that's enabled us to identify a number of suspects," Wormald said. "This appears to
be a random attack and until we have located this guy he's still out and
about so people should be careful." |
