‘I really thought he was going to kill me, and I thought my young son was going to witness my murder’
It was lunchtime on a warm summer’s day when a young mum walked hand-in-hand with her little boy towards Princess Road in Withington, blissfully unaware of the horrors that were following her.
“Since the incident I have felt so much guilt in relation to my son. My son was with me at the time. The thought my five-year-old child saw this is devastating. I was stuck in hospital not able to get the attacker’s face out of my mind,” her statement read. “I have felt shame and blame myself and wonder whether I caused something. I regret going out. Why me? Why attack me? What have I done?”
“If I see somebody behind me, I’m often thinking that someone is going to attack me or my son. This was not something I have ever felt or had to think about previously,” she said. Arif had behaved 'erratically' in days before The court heard that Arif’s behaviour at the time of the attack was erratic, growing increasingly more bizarre by the day. He was pacing around the house, drinking a gallon of milk so that he could get ‘stronger’ and was becoming more and more paranoid.He was also excessively using his phone, to the point his family took it from him. Despite all this, he wasn’t acting violently, prosecutor Sara Haque said.
Initially not thinking anything of it, she carried on walking. After crossing the road in an attempt to avoid him, she had no choice but to turn and face him.
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