Compensation news
07/01/2011

Police officers suffer work-related injury in knife attack

A police officer and community support officer suffered work-related injury in west London, in mid-afternoon near an Ealing bus stop amid Sunday Christmas shoppers.

The officers were helping transport workers by making routine ticket checks when they saw a man, who was wanted for arrest having caused death by dangerous driving and committing other serious offences, on a bus which had stopped to let people off.

Upon being recognised, the 30-year-old man ran off the bus and drew a knife when it became clear to him that the officers were going to take him into custody. He slashed at one officer's throat, giving him a life-threatening neck injury, and the other officer received arm and hand wounds when trying to restrain the assailant.

The attacker was arrested at the scene incident and the officer who was stabbed in the neck was treated at the scene. In hospital he was described as being in a "serious but stable condition".

The two officers may wish to claim work-related injury compensation for their pain suffering and any loss of earnings.